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This paper, primarily concerned with identification, has sparse clinical material but a great deal of finely detailed theory. True identification consists of simultaneous imitation, ego investment or 'egotization', and 'de-egotization' of an ego state. Several references are made to childhood development and infancy but again they are more in the nature of theoretical construct than clinical observation.