Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of transferring.
- noun The fact of being transferred.
- noun The 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The 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.
- noun In Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of
transferring or the fact of beingtransferred . - noun psychology The process by which
emotions anddesires , originally associated with one person, such as aparent , areunconsciously shifted to another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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
- noun transferring ownership
- noun the act of transfering something from one form to another
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Examples
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The term transference is derived from adult psychoanalytic therapy and refers to the views and relations the patient presents about significant early childhood objects, namely parents, sibs, and significant caretakers.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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It's obviously going to -- one of the speculations or one of the things that's a very good possibility is what we call transference, you know, where something that was touched by the officer was transferred over to that.
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Here's another trait of the GOP: They constantly accuse their opponents of their own bad behavior (psychologists call it "transference").
CNN Poll: Does the GOP want ideologically pure candidates? 2009
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Freudians would call it "transference"; whatever the case, Plath fell in love with her doctor.
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This process can be particularly challenging when the patient's transference is eroticized.
Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010
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This process can be particularly challenging when the patient's transference is eroticized.
Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010
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Certainly some errors are predictable based on transference from the L1, but in my experience variability is common and often unpredictable even with groups of learners from the same L1 background with pretty much the same level of exposure to the L2, and this variability often appears to have nothing to do with negative (or even positive, for that matter) transfer.
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That close to his spine, I bet any joint transference is really painful.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007
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The garden is a domestication of the wild, taking what can be random, and, to a degree, ordering it so that it is not merely a transference from the wild, but still retains the elements that make each plant shine in its natural habitat.
stanley kunitz | turning the soil « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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The U.S. Congress has existed for some time now, (speeded up since the fall of communism) as a vehicle of wealth transference from the poor and working middle classes to the wealthy and superwealthy.
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