Freud
Freud first raised the matter of identification in 1897, in connection with the illness or death of one's parents, and the response 'to punish oneself in a hysterical fashion...with the same states that they have had. The identification which occurs here is, as we can see, nothing other than a mode of thinking'. The question was taken up again psychoanalytically 'in Ferenczi's article, "Introjection and Transference", dating from 1909', but it was in the decade between "On Narcissism" (1914) and "The Ego and the Id" (1923) that Freud made his most detailed and intensive study of the concept.
Freud distinguished there three main kinds of identification. 'First, identification is the original form of emotional tie with an object; secondly, in a regressive way it becomes a substitute for a libidinal object-tie...and thirdly, it may arise with any new perception of a common quality which is shared with some other person'.
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