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What does transference mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
  2. (psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
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In spite of his recognition of transference and counter-transference, Freud continued to maintain that he was a scientist until his death.
The main transference and counter-transference, however, was directed back to the couple and their interaction.
These two polymorphic processes function as a complex relation of reciprocal transference.
The gothic also mystifies the social system in other ways, most notably through a type of transference.
Yet, obviously, such transference might quicken interest and offer other ways of thinking about a subject.
It must be some kind of transference, so the studio guys think that they're geniuses, too, for discovering them.

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