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In his 1914 pioneer study “On Narcissism,” Freud summarizes the “paths” that direct us in choosing love objects:
A person may love:—
According to the narcissistic type:
what he himself is (i.e., himself),
what he himself was,
what he himself would like to be,
someone who was once part of himself.
According to the anaclitic (attachment) type: