Modes of Identification
Freud's Concepts Reorganized
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siegfried Zepf (a Narzissenstraße 5, D-66119 , Saarbrücken , Germany E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-55 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.2009.10592640 |
| OpenAlex | W2016946726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
The author examines Freud's conceptualizations of identification, Melanie Klein's projective identification, and Anna Freud's identification with the aggressor and altruistic surrender of one's own instinctual impulses. After demonstrating that Freud's concept primary identification refers not to a process but to the state of being identified, he suggests the substitution of it with Sandler's term “oneness”. He notes that hysterical identification, narcissistic identification, and introjection are unconscious processes that lead to a state of oneness and that they can be distinguished clinically in terms of the emotional meaning that an object holds for the individual. Furthermore, it is shown that the concept of identification with the aggressor represents a defense mechanism of its own and a specific mode of narcissistic identification, which together with projections and hysterical re-identification play a decisive rôle in projective identification and altruistic surrender of one's own instinctual impulses
Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Identification (biology) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Object (grammar) · Projective identification · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Surrender · Unconscious mind · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
The language of psycho-analysis
The interpretation of dreams.
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego.
Adolescence
Civilization and Its Discontents
The status of psychoanalytic theory today
Interpreting sex
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
The Concept of Identification in the Work of Freud Ferenczi, and Abraham
Metapsychology or Metaphysics
Primary Narcissism and Primary Love
Object Concept and Object Choice
Object Relations in Clinical Practice
Transitional Phenomena, Projective Identification, and the Essential Ambiguity of the Psychoanalytic Situation
Introjection, Projection and Identification
Notes on Identification
Never twice without thrice’ An outline for the understanding of traumatic neurosis
Irreducible subjectivity and interactionism
Vicissitudes of bisexuality
Psychoanalysis and Time
The Waning of the Oedipus Complex
Suggestion and Psychoanalytic Technique
On Internal Object Relations
Some Thoughts on Empathy and Countertransference
Maternal Identification
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |