the act or an instance of transferring or the state of being transferred the redirection of attitudes and emotions towards a substitute, such as towards the analyst during therapy
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trans•fer•ence
(trans fûr′əns, trans′fər əns),USA pronunciation n.
- the act or process of transferring.
- the fact of being transferred.
- [Psychoanal.]
- the shift of emotions, esp. those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, esp. the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst.
- displacement (def. 7).
- Neo-Latin trānsferentia. See transfer, -ence
- 1675–85
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