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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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affection - It's the feeling that fills your heart every time you watch a [Man watching a video on laptop and love hearts float above his head]

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shmoop video here's our question Freud believes that in psychoanalysis the

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patient often expressed affection or disdain toward the therapist as though

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the therapist had assumed the role of someone important in the patient's life

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he called this phenomenon what and here are your potential answers [mumbles]

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Seeing as we're talking about the big

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papa of psychoanalysis himself let's first eliminate anything that wasn't [Freud cradling a baby]

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directly attributed to him starting with the Electra complex well the Electra

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complex describes a girl's psychosexual competitiveness with her mother for

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possession of her father it's named after Electra from Greek mythology who [People stood by a Greek temple]

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wanted her brother to kill their mother well we know what you're thinking this

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makes you super uncomfortable so probably comes from Freud well close but not [Girl uncomfortable watching a video]

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quite it's actually a Neo-Freudian concept attributed to Carl Jung so it

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doesn't fit so the Electra complex is essentially just a female version of

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Freud's Oedipus complex which describes how young boys are attracted to their [Oedipus stood with a girl by ruins of a temple]

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mothers, awkward dinner conversation probably our answer no.. Free association

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is another classic Freudian concept but it has nothing to do with the question

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it's a technique used in psychoanalysis that aims to tap into the patients

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unconscious by allowing them to speak freely and spontaneously in hopes of [Freud with a pick ax to a man's head]

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bypassing any conscious filter very Freud but also very not what we're

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looking for.. Projection is almost there but not quite otherwise known as

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blame-shifting it refers to when people deny certain traits as existing in

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themselves and impose those traits onto others around them instead not quite [Freud and Jung in a library together]

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what the questions looking for.. The question is looking specifically for the

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transfer of feelings about one person on to another person and this is called you

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guessed it transference when you project the feelings you have for one person [Boy talking to Stacey in a park about her mum]

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like say your best friend's mom you really like onto another person like say

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your teacher who reminds you of her then you transfer those feelings meaning [Young school boy with a teacher at the front of class]

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you'd be more inclined to really like your teacher simply because she reminds

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you of that mom you really like and no Freud just because we said the word mom [Mom typed into shmoople web page]

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doesn't mean we're talking about sex get that out of your head come on Sig... [Freud browsing the internet]

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