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Identification (psychology)

Identification is a psychological process where the individual assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed wholly or partially by the model that other provides. It is by means of a series of identifications that the personality is constituted and specified. The roots of the concept can be found in Freud's writings. The…

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Freud

GermanOn NarcissismThe Ego and the IdEmotional attachmentImitation
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