transference

noun

1. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.

2. psychologyThe process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

3. (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