transference

• Postmodernity, in other words, may be witnessing the decline of what Freud called the transference neuroses and the rise of narcissistic psycho-neuroses. —  I cite
• The thing leaks subtlety in its transference, and this is true for all the characters, for the strata of the plot, for the jolts of language. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
• I don't believe anyone who takes any interest in British politics can have been remotely shocked by the antics of Damian McBride and Derek 'Dolly' Draper - the latter may now be a qualified psychotherapist, but clearly this transference was only ever psyche-deep; for underneath his conscious pose as a principled pundit, there lurk the instincts of an immature —  The First Post: Latest
• Analogies from trance phenomena and even from experimental thought-transference might be drawn here, in favour of such a theory. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• If the rest is symbolism, so are the pictures of the avenging armies of angels, the reeking gulf of sulphur, and the golden streets of the city The entire scheme of thought, as it still stands in the mind of the Orthodox believer, is to be rejected as spurious, because it rests on a process of imaginative accumulation and transference which is absolutely illegitimate; namely, the association and universalizing of political and military images, which are then hardened from emblems into facts, and cast over upon the mutual relations of God and mankind. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

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