transference

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 3.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
2. noun The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

Similar words

transfer transferring handover redeployment transition passthrough transmission devolution shipment shift

Often followed by

of and to is in neurosis from relationship reactions

Word family

transfer transferable transferences transferential transferred transferring transfers