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The author reviews the literature on the concept of identification and presents a scientific definition of the word: 'a "true" (secondary) identification is a consequence of a "true" object relationship, with a renunciation of that object in the external world'. To distinguish identification from other similar phenomena, it is further described economically as an attempt to conserve libido: structurally,
as changes in the self to resemble an object; dynamically, to conserve libido by offering one portion of the self as a substitute for an external object.