transference
nounThe act or process of transferring.
nounThe fact of being transferred.
nounThe 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.
nounThe 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.
nounIn Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.
nounThe act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
nounThe act of conveying from one place to another; the act of
The process by which
(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