transference
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- n (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
- n transferring ownership
- n the act of transfering something from one form to another
- And although Black's loud, friendly, shambling screen personality makes a smooth transference to panda form, I wish Po were more persuasively drawn; visually, he's the least .
- Rozin specializes in the psychological study of disgust, and he was demonstrating the universal concept of touch transference.
- The idea that kids should slow down and trade electronic pleasures for pastoral ones is a fine example of transference.