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Quotes About Transference

Selling is about a transference of emotion, not a presentation of facts.
~ Seth Godin
Selling is about a transference of emotion, not a presentation of facts. If it were just a presentation of facts, then a PDF flyer or a Web site would be sufficient to make the phone ring.
~ Seth Godin
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had.
~ George Eliot
If this is what happens, then a transference and displacement of the psychical intensity of the individual elements has taken place; as a consequence, the difference between the texts of the dream-content and the dream-thoughts makes its appearance.
~ Sigmund Freud
The patients cannot themselves bring all their conflicts into the transference; nor is the analyst able to call out all their possible instinctual conflicts from the transference situation.
~ Sigmund Freud
Base motives have in them more energy than noble ones. Problem: in what way can the energy belonging to the base motives be transferred to the noble ones?
~ Simone Weil
Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the very wealthy. At the expense of everybody who isn't at the top.
~ Max Keiser
My soul left me—I felt it fly from me and lodge in her.
~ Sarah Waters
The best way to cope with pain was to pass it on to someone else.
~ Mary Balogh
I can honestly say that I've never seen such a transference, from person to character, as I have with James 'becoming' Tony Soprano. Because he was, of course, nothing at all like Tony in real life.
~ David Nutter
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~ Joseph Joubert
another reason not to say critical things about other people: "spontaneous trait transference." Studies show that because of this psychological phenomenon, people unintentionally transfer to me the traits I ascribe to other people.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Art is a reaching toward, a bid to be seen and understood and recognized by another. It involves a form of transference.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I trained to be a theatre actor, I love the live gig, the transference between an audience and a performer.
~ Adrian Dunbar
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
~ Karen Salmansohn
It was rare but not unheard of for an analysand tossed by tides of transference and desublimation to seek the safety of Dr. Kavalier's doorstep or by contrast inflamed with the special hatred of counter-transference to leave herself there in some desperate condition as a cruel prank like a paper sack of dog turds set afire.
~ Michael Chabon
to find the phenomenon and then explain it in a way that applies to other situations
~ Michael Lewis
with girls (house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? the damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood)
~ Sylvia Plath
Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.
~ Stephen White
That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
~ Mitch Albom
For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at the same time. If this were true, his differed from the highest affection as the lower orders of the animal world differ from advanced organisms, partition causing not death but a multiplied existence.
~ Thomas Hardy
The latter in any case relies too much upon the mysterious insight of the doctor, and, by appealing to his professional vanity, lays a dangerous trap for him. By taking refuge in the doctor's self-confidence and "profound" understanding, the patient loses all sense of reality, falls into a stubborn transference, and retards the cure.
~ C.G. Jung
sometimes we see things in animals that aren't really there. It's called transference, if that makes any sense. ...I think there are a lot of people who say they do things for animals when they're really doing it for themselves. They see things in animals that might not really be there. I think sometimes that hurts the animals in the end, and it hurts other people, too. ...There are people on both sides of the issue who think animals are more valuable than people are...
~ C.J. Box