transference

[ UK /tɹænsfˈɜːɹəns/ ]
[ US /tɹænsˈfɝəns/ ]

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
the act of transfering something from one form to another
the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise
transferring ownership

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And I'm not too stupid to realise this is all transference.
In general, the deep sea is considered to start at the aphotic zone, the point where sunlight loses its power of transference through the water. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
These two polymorphic processes function as a complex relation of reciprocal transference.
The transference of the permanent use rights of the water is valued at 200 million yuan and is believed to be the first deal of its kind on the Chinese mainland.
Here the analysis of dreams and the analysis of the transference become indispensable.
Good risk management practice incorporates several possible strategies: avoidance, transference, mitigation, or acceptance.
The change, energy, process, and transference accounts converge in treating connection in terms of process: causing is physical producing.
In spite of his recognition of transference and counter-transference, Freud continued to maintain that he was a scientist until his death.
There is no way to explain this except to attribute it to thought transference, and this in spite of the fact that the kongoni doesn't understand English. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
It must be some kind of transference, so the studio guys think that they're geniuses, too, for discovering them.

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