Transference - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Transference :  (noun)
1: (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
2: transferring ownership [syn: transfer]
3: 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" [syn: transfer]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Transference : \Trans"fer*ence\, n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called aTransference : active; if the defender, it is a transference passive. Ersk. Prin. B. 4, t. 1, n. 32.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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