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The act of identifying is driven by the need to process the extinctive tendency of any drive. It enables the psychic processes that are essential to the realisation of the various psychic functions to be established. Identification with the imperative of renunciation is at the root of all identifications, whether hysterical, narcissistic or antitraumatic. They are all the locus of conflict, between identifying through recognition of lack and identifying in order to deny lack. Identification is part of the work of lack.