transference
C1CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The unconscious redirection of feelings about a significant figure from one's past onto the therapist.
The intense transference became a central tool of the therapy, as she began to treat the analyst like her withholding father.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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