Transference Quotes

“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It means that when organized philosophies like the Illuminati go out of existence, their symbols remain… available for adoption by other groups. It’s called transference. It’s very common in symbology. The Nazis took the swastika from the Hindus, the Christians adopted the cruciform from the Egyptians, the—”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.”
― Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Pages 1-5.

“Within the mental-health system in North America, the borderline victim of severe childhood trauma is usually blamed for her behaviour, which is regarded as having no legitimate basis and being self-indulgent; her trauma history is ignored and not talked about; and she is given as little treatment and follow-up as possible. At St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, many staff members expressed the opinion, in my presence, that borderlines and multiple personality disorder patients did not have a legitimate right to in-patient treatment, and the out-patient department would not accept patients with either diagnosis. (1995)”
― Colin A. Ross, Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment

“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice and good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion. (Section 3, paragraph 2).”
― David Hume, The Natural History of Religion

“The wish to see others suffer exactly what we are suffering. It is because of this that, except in periods of social instability, the spite of those in misfortune is directed against their fellows. That is a factor making for social stability.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“...sometimes we see things in animals that aren't really there. It's called transference, if that makes any sense.

...I think there are a lot of people who say they do things for animals when they're really doing it for themselves. They see things in animals that might not really be there. I think sometimes that hurts the animals in the end, and it hurts other people, too.

...There are people on both sides of the issue who think animals are more valuable than people are...”
― C.J. Box, Open Season

“I remembered the hotel drinks with the married man, when he'd eagerly asked me if I wanted children. And now here was this man, neurotically lying about his age. I'd spent a lot of my life being cautioned to avoid being a certain kind of woman: needy, desperate, hungry for commitment and babies, terrified of my age. Only now was it starting to occur to me that these female clichés had all been created by men, and perhaps, like many writers, they'd simply been describing themselves and projecting their worst characteristics.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

“If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my
product or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about it
and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feel
anything. Nothing at all”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“The sky is scythe into rain. Another name for the flesh.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ghost Tracks

“He is right here in the vegetable patch, in the time I make to spend with my new families, in the things he said to me, repeating in my head - you can never have too much love.
I had run away but here in the garden he’d found me and found me no longer a boy but now a grown-up man, myself.”
― Tom Allen, Too Much: the hilarious, heartfelt memoir

“Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain. It is a shame no man ever completely recovers from. Some try to drown it by becoming the perpetrator of similar pain, and creating a new victim to bear for them that shame. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“She's been doing this more and more lately, letting her feelings toward one person spill over into her interactions with others.”
― Jung Yun, O Beautiful

“Working within the NHS, we are, as therapists, part of the system that has its own logic and values that can be experienced by the DID patient as not consistent with their own needs, and can be experienced as cold, detached and abusive.”
― Peter Whewell, Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“The illusion of knowing another person creates the possibility, the freedom, of not knowing them”
― Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

“Resolving transference... means releasing the patient from the project, which is partly an illusion... of knowing and being known”
― Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life