the process of transferring feelings from one object to another is called
Transference Transference (German: Ãœbertragung) is a theoretical phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of the feelings a person has about a second person to feelings the first person has about a third person. It usually concerns feelings from an important second-person relationship from childhood, and is sometimes considered inappropriate.[1][2][3] Transference was first described by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who considered it an important part of treatment in psychoanalysis.
Broken heart The emotional "pain" of a broken heart is believed to be part of the survival instinct. The "social-attachment system" uses the "pain system" to encourage humans to maintain their close social relationships by causing pain when those relationships are lost.[1] Psychologists Geoff MacDonald of the University of Queensland and Mark Leary of Wake Forest University proposed in 2005 the evolution of common mechanisms for both physical and emotional pain responses and argue that such expressions are "more than just a metaphor".[2][3] The concept is believed to be universal, with many cultures using the same words to describe both physical pain and the feelings associated with relationship loss.[2][3]