object choice
[ŏb′jĭkt, -jĕkt′]
n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the object, usually a person, upon which an individual's psychic energy is centered.
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Identification has to be added where object-choice has taken place, and object love where there is identification.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The EgoSigmund Freud