Transference Quotes

• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Optimistic, Mean People

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Education, Fear

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

  Ralph Archbold

  Inspirational, Flames, Enthusiasm

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• A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychosis, Ego, Narcissistic

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

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• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  Sigmund Freud

  Taken, Fate, Views

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Transition, Metamorphosis

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.

  Michael Fassbender

  Sexy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Michael Fassbender Talks A DANGEROUS METHOD, ROBOCOP, and AT SWIM-TWO BIRDS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 25, 2011.

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• In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching

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• Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Love Is, Sight

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• The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, People

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• Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.

  Raymond Scott

  Thinking, Years, Perfect

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  Dan Colen

  Soul, Energy, Spirit

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• Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Distance, Taken, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

  Zig Ziglar

  Feelings, Business Success, Selling

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.85, Revell

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Discovery, Self

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• The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Men, Use, Might

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• The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

  Tony Evans

  Home, Kids, People

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• We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.

  Jean Houston

  Media, People, Mind

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

  Charles Busch

  Girl, New York, Book

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Teacher, Perception, Study

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• ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, Reading, Learning

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Taken, Dark

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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