transference

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The act or process of transferring.

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The fact of being transferred.

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The process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst during a course of treatment.

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The act of transferring; the act of conveying from one place, person, or thing to another; the passage or conveyance of anything from one place or person to another; transfer.

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In Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.

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The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

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The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.

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The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

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(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst