Definitions
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- Pertaining to or involving transference.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
transference .
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Examples
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If we work back to the beginning of the section on magnetic sleep, the counter-transferential nature of the process, which is what renders it a "crisis" in a psychoanalytic sense, becomes more evident.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Nichols had a half-brother Michael Raines on the NYPD, who eventually moved to Los Angeles and started having transferential relationships with dead people.
Archive 2009-07-26 Toby O'B 2009
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By eliciting the patriarch's desire to do as was done to him, Ms. Zornberg writes, God "plays the role of the analyst ... inviting Abraham's transferential love and fear."
Signs and Wonders 2009
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Eames: "I try to avoid transferential relationships with dead people -- it's always so one-sided."
Archive 2009-07-26 Toby O'B 2009
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One can hardly deny that de Man was a charismatic figure, and it would be nearly as hard to deny that the "rigor" of his method facilitated many of the transferential and ideological effects that
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Guillory's imaginary reduction of theory's dissemination to the seminar is itself our first and largest clue that his analysis is itself being distorted by the transferential effect it describes.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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All pedagogy activates transferential relationships, but de Man's ability to inspire love and emulation — an excess of transference — is part of the record (which is also to say the legend or phantasmatics) of his reception.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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But if Guillory "knows," as we say, his own oedipal predicament, that knowledge is complicated by the negative-transferential passion with which he denies knowledge to others — to the other disciples, of course, who in this account are little more than bright-eyed dupes, but above all to the master himself.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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The legendary transferential effects of de Man's seminar did indeed play an important if necessarily limited role in the diffusion of de Manian theory.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Though Guillory notes in passing that transferential effects can happen at a distance, he focuses his account entirely on the seminar, and on the kind of transference that most lends itself to being characterized (which is really to say, denounced) as
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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