Identification (n.) of the Oedipal kind lets the subject transcend the aggressivity that made him an individual in the first place — a step that opens a respectful distance from one's neighbour.
Identification (n.) with the analyst, whatever form it takes, is always identification with signifiers.
Identification (n.) at the end of an ego-psychology analysis is with the analyst's own 'strong ego' — the patient's cure is to become his doctor's copy.
Identification (n.) that sustains desire is marked by the indifference of its object: any object will do.
Identification (n.) with the analyst is merely a pause, a false termination of analysis often confused with its normal end — the mark of a transference not analysed.
Identification (n.) with the object of love is as silly as this: what one cannot keep outside, one always keeps an image of inside.
Identification (n.) in the girl takes a detour through the father, because one sex must borrow the other's image to find its own.