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 Ego|Sigmund Freud