All 6 Uses of
transference
in
War and Peace
- So that the greater part of the events of history—civil wars, revolutions, and conquests—are presented by these historians not as the results of free transferences of the people's will, but as results of the ill-directed will of one or more individuals, that is, once again, as usurpations of power.†
Chpt 15
- The theory that this connection is based on the transference of the collective will of a people to certain historical personages is an hypothesis unconfirmed by the experience of history.†
Chpt 15
- The theory of the transference of the collective will of the people to historic persons may perhaps explain much in the domain of jurisprudence and be essential for its purposes, but in its application to history, as soon as revolutions, conquests, or civil wars occur—that is, as soon as history begins—that theory explains nothing.†
Chpt 15
- The theory seems irrefutable just because the act of transference of the people's will cannot be verified, for it never occurred.†
Chpt 15 *
- This is what historians of the first class say—those who assume the unconditional transference of the people's will.†
Chpt 15
- The theory of the transference of the will of the people to historic persons is merely a paraphrase—a restatement of the question in other words.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(transference as in: psychological transference) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another -- especially to the therapist