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Transference has been defined as the displacement of patterns of feelings and behavior that were originally experienced with significant figures of one’s childhood to individuals in one’s current relationships (Moore & Fine, 1968, p. 92). Transference has always been understood to have its roots in the infantile past. Freud focused on the events of the oedipal phase and the infantile neurosis as the source of neurotic transference (Freud, 1905, 1912, 1913, 1915–1917). Gradually, other analysts (Kernberg, 1975; Klein, 1948, Kohut, 1971, 1977; Kramer, 1979) explored the relationships between preoedipal development and transference.
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Nemiroff, R.A., Colarusso, C.A. (1985). Adult Development and Transference. In: The Race Against Time. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3481-9_5
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