transferences

Noun

transference (countable and uncountable, plural transferences)

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

   Synonyms:

   transferal

2. The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
   • Furthermore, although probably few analysts still believe that transference occurs only in the context of the psychoanalytic situation, many hold that this phenomenon pertains only to object relationships. I submit, however, that the characteristic features of transference can be observed in other...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 15, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 253