These are my opinions: different children identify with different parents. I think I identified with my father, because he was the loving one in the family. My brother identified with my mother, in order to escape her punishments.
This does not agree with theories which say that the boy MUST identify with the father (or with the mother) and that the girl MUST identify with the mother (or with the father).
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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