Object identification provides a person their earliest influence that leads to the Oedipus complex and ultimately shapes one's ego. The primitive oral phase, or object identification stage develops one's erotic object choices. One learns how to react, by deciding whether they can survive without the object or will do anything to maintain it. If the object identification becomes too strong, a pathological outcome or personality disorder could occur. The

The father and mother identification stemming from the Oedipus complex are combined to create the superego, which greatly influences the ego. The super-ego came into being by repressing the Oedipus complex. The faster and stronger it repressed those Oedipus identifications the more influence the authoritative super-ego will have on the ego. Religion, morality and a social sense arise in the individual from the impulses of jealous rivalry against brother and sister, stemming from the Oedipus complex. The super-ego is the authority instilled in people as children and substitutes the father or mother identification as it is carried on with teachers, religion, police, laws, et cetera answering to what is expected of the higher nature of man. The super-ego represents the morals and values people possess inherently. The super-ego and the id fight in unconscious to repres

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