Narcissistic object choice in women occurs when ego and ego ideal become identified and fused with the object. Gross pathology in the identification of ego and ego ideal will lead to pathology in narcissistic object choice and in object relationship. Pathology is more frequent when the object is identified with the ego ideal.

Two pathological types of narcissistic object choice are considered. The first appears clinically as an extreme, dependent subservience to one man; the second is represented by those women who have transitory dependent pseudo infatuations during which they take on the man's personality only to drop him after a short time for another man. This is the 'as if' personality. Although the two types