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"Whatever the [[character]]'s later capacity for resisting the influences of abandoned [[object]]-[[cathexes ]] may turn out to be, the effects of the first identifications made in earliest [[childhood ]] will be general and lasting. This leads us back to the origin of the ego [[ideal]]; for behind it there lies hidden an [[individual]]'s first and most important [[identification]], his identification with the [[father ]] in his own personal [[prehistory]]. This is apparently not in the first [[instance ]] the consequence or outcome of an object-[[cathexis]]; it is a direct and immediate...