transference

  • 1Transference — is a phenomenon in psychoanalysis characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings for one person to another. One definition of transference is the inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person s… …

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  • 2transference — trans·fer·ence /trans fər əns, trans ˌfər / n: an act, process, or instance of transferring Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. transference …

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  • 3Transference — Trans fer*ence, n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4transference — 1680s; see TRANSFER (Cf. transfer) (v.) + ENCE (Cf. ence). In psychoanalytical sense it is recorded from 1911, translating Ger. übertragung (Freud) …

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  • 5transference — ► NOUN 1) the action of transferring or the process of being transferred. 2) Psychoanalysis the redirection to a substitute of emotions originally felt in childhood …

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  • 6transference — [trans′fər əns, trans fʉr′əns] n. 1. a transferring or being transferred; transfer 2. Psychol.Psychoanalysis a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, esp. of childhood, and the substitution of another person, esp. a… …

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  • 7Transference —    Among the earliest concepts in psychoanalysis, transference surfaced before psychoanalysis as a system had even jelled in Freud’s mind. In 1895 in Studies in Hysteria (Studien über Hysterie), Freud said that patients who transfer their… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 8Transference — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Transference >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 transfer transfer transference Sgm: N 1 translocation translocation elocation| Sgm: N 1 displacement displacement Sgm: N 1 metastasis metastasis metathesis Sgm: N …

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  • 9transference — [[t]træ̱nsfərəns[/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft N of n The transference of something such as power, information, or affection from one person or place to another is the action of transferring it. It is a struggle for a transference of power... His… …

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  • 10transference — Synonyms and related words: abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, announcement, assignation, assignment, association, association by contiguity, association of ideas, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, cession, clang… …

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