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The character of the ego is built up via a series of identifications carried out in the course of development. As infants are forced by experience
to give up the 'internal illusion' of primal identification with the powerful mother, the sense of helplessness that ensues leads to secondary identification to create an 'external illusion' of oneness with the mother during heightened stress or tension.