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  1. Identification (psychology)

    Identification is a psychological process whereby 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 three most prominent concepts of identification as described by Freud are: primary identification, narcissistic (secondary) identification and partial (secondary) identification.While "in the psychoanalytic literature there is agreement that the core meaning of identification is simple – to be like or to become like another", it has also been adjudged '"the most perplexing clinical/theoretical area" in psychoanalysis'.

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  1. Identification (Psychology)

    A process by which an individual unconsciously endeavors to pattern himself after another. This process is also important in the development of the personality, particularly the superego or conscience, which is modeled largely on the behavior of adult significant others.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of identification (psychology) in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of identification (psychology) in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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  • تحديد (علم النفس)Arabic
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  • पहचान (मनोविज्ञान)Hindi
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  • شناخت (نفسیات)Urdu
  • 識別(心理學)Chinese

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