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/tɹænsfˈɜːɹəns/
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[ US /tɹænsˈfɝəns/ ]
[ US /tɹænsˈfɝəns/ ]
NOUN
- (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
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the act of transfering something from one form to another
the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise - transferring ownership
How To Use transference In A Sentence
- In them there are these differences from the above process: the contents of the male cell, represented by the pollen, are not differentiated into spermatozoids, and there is no actual contact between the contents of the pollen tube and the germinal vesicle, but according to Strashurger, there is a transference of the substance of the nucleus of the pollen cell to that of the germinal vesicle by osmose. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
- Anger and outright rage at the computer, when it doesn't behave the way YOU want it to, may be a symptom of this kind of transference.
- I suspect a certain attitude to asylum-seekers (‘they've come here to sponge’ etc.) is actually a form of transference.
- Hypocrisy in this arena is unfortunately what we in the mental health field call transference. Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell To Attempt First Non-Horrible SOTU Response in American History
- The paper also dealt with certain so-called spiritualistic phenomena, which at the time Prof. Barrett was disposed to attribute to hallucination and “thought-transference.” Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- You could tell that the Republicans were up to their eyeballs in the Iraqi oil-for-food rake-off from all the transference-projection they did about it. Poll: Record High for Wrong-Track Rating - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- Manson was moreover guided by his experience regarding another parasite of the blood, a little worm, filaria, the transference of which from one part of its life-cycle to another he had found effected by the mosquito, and more particularly by special species of the mosquito. Physiology or Medicine 1902 - Presentation Speech
- The purpose of note-taking in consecutive interpreting is to supplement memory efficiency so as to facilitate the listening-transference-speaking process.
- The whole gentile constitution made the transference of private property from father to son impossible.
- Most psychoanalysts recognize this principle as valid, more especially since analysis of transference became so central a concern of psychoanalytic treatment.