Difference between revisions of "Primary Identification"

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"Whatever the character's later capacity for resisting the influences of abandoned object-cathexes may turn out to be, the effects of the first identifications made in earliest childhood will be general and lasting. This leads us back to the origin of the ego ideal; for behind it there lies hidden an individual's first and most important identification, his identification with the father in his own personal prehistory. This is apparently not in the first instance the consequence or outcome of an object-cathexis; it is a direct and immediate...
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"Whatever the [[character]]'s later capacity for resisting the influences of abandoned [[object]]-[[cathexes]] may turn out to be, the effects of the first identifications made in earliest [[childhood]] will be general and lasting. This leads us back to the origin of the ego [[ideal]]; for behind it there lies hidden an [[individual]]'s first and most important [[identification]], his identification with the [[father]] in his own personal [[prehistory]]. This is apparently not in the first [[instance]] the consequence or outcome of an object-[[cathexis]]; it is a direct and immediate...
  
  

Latest revision as of 21:21, 20 May 2019

"Whatever the character's later capacity for resisting the influences of abandoned object-cathexes may turn out to be, the effects of the first identifications made in earliest childhood will be general and lasting. This leads us back to the origin of the ego ideal; for behind it there lies hidden an individual's first and most important identification, his identification with the father in his own personal prehistory. This is apparently not in the first instance the consequence or outcome of an object-cathexis; it is a direct and immediate...