Editing Transference (section)

== Occurrence ==
It is common for people to transfer feelings about their parents to their partners or children (that is, cross-generational entanglements).{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} Other examples of transference would be a person mistrusting somebody who resembles an ex-spouse in manners, voice, or external appearance, or being overly compliant to someone who resembles a childhood friend.

In ''The Psychology of the Transference'', [[Carl Jung]] states that within the transference [[dyad (sociology)|dyad]], both participants typically experience a variety of opposites, that in love and in psychological growth, the key to success is the ability to endure the tension of the opposites without abandoning the process, and that this tension allows one to grow and to transform.<ref>[[Carl Jung|Jung, Carl C.]] ''The Psychology of the Transference'', Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|0-691-01752-2}}</ref>

Only in a personally or socially harmful context can transference be described as a pathological issue. A modern, social-cognitive perspective on transference explains how it can occur in everyday life. When people meet a new person who reminds them of someone else, they unconsciously infer that the new person has traits similar to the person previously known.<ref name="soccogtrans">Andersen, S. M. & Berk., M. (1998). The social-cognitive model of transference: Experiencing past relationships in the present. ''Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7(4)'', 109-115.</ref> This perspective has generated a wealth of research that illuminated how people tend to repeat relationship patterns from the past in the present.

[[Sigmund Freud]] held that transference plays a large role in male homosexuality. In ''The Ego and the Id'', he claimed that eroticism between males can be an outcome of a "[psychically] non-economic" hostility, which is unconsciously subverted into love and sexual attraction.<ref>Freud, S. (1960). ''The ego and the id''. J. Strachey (Ed.). (J. Riviere, Trans.). New York: W.W. Norton. (Original work published 1923)</ref>