UK Life Coaching Journal

Transference… what is it, exactly?     Comments (0)

Transference has been called “the projecting of a perfect picture upon an imperfect screen.”  It forms the basis of many human relationships, in which one person unconsciously endows qualities of perfection upon another.  As this sets up an unequal power balance between the two people involved, the ‘lesser’ will typically project (or transfer) their longed-for ideal on to the ’greater’, attributing to them numinous or god-like qualities.

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