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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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I suspect a certain attitude to asylum-seekers is actually a form of transference.
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.
The gene transference involves the use of a vector carrier which can be a plasmid or a virus.
These two polymorphic processes function as a complex relation of reciprocal transference.
Yet, obviously, such transference might quicken interest and offer other ways of thinking about a subject.
It's called transference, and it's very dangerous, particularly when you have large corporations.

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