shift feelings; transference
Meanings
2 senses · 6 examplesverb
to shift one's affections; to transfer emotions (to another person)
Commonly used in romantic contexts, often in the set phrase 移情别恋 (to fall out of love with one person and in love with another).
He shifted his affections and fell in love with someone else.
She worried that her husband would transfer his affections.
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In this relationship, it doesn't matter who shifted their feelings first; what matters is facing it honestly.
verb
to transfer emotions or attitudes from one person to another, or to project subjective feelings onto objective objects; transference
technicalTechnical term in psychoanalysis (referring to transference, where a patient redirects emotions toward the therapist) and aesthetics (referring to empathy or projecting feelings onto external objects).
In psychotherapy, patients often develop transference toward the therapist.
Aesthetic empathy refers to projecting one's own emotions onto objective objects.
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The psychoanalytic school places great importance on the study of transference phenomena.