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SARTORI, João Torrecillas. The etiology of identification between psychoanalytic theory and political psychology. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2024, n.62, pp.71-84.  Epub 07-Nov-2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n62a06.

In this article, we conduct an interdisciplinary analysis of the etiological conception of identification as presented by Freud in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921/1986) – that is, we critically examine this conception by contrasting the conditions of occurrence of the phenomenon that Freud posited with those inferred from a “competing” theory originating from a field of knowledge other than psychoanalysis. To this end, we revisit, in the aforementioned work (1921/1986), Freud’s theory of affective bonds and, more specifically, his theory of identification, isolating its components – among them, the statements concerning the definition of identification and the constitutive hypotheses of its etiological conception. We then revisit Festinger’s (1957) theory of cognitive dissonance, as established and empirically supported within political psychology in studies such as that of Krosnick (2002), and analyze its status of compatibility with Freud’s theory. Through this analysis, we highlight a certain degree of compatibility between Freud’s theory of identification and Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance, and from the latter we deduce an etiological hypothesis of identification that complements the hypotheses proposed by Freud. On the other hand, we emphasize the existence of aspects of Freud’s etiological conception of identification that have not yet been subjected to empirical evaluation. The interdisciplinary critical examination carried out in this article opens potential avenues for further investigation in both the psychoanalytic field and political psychology.

Palavras-chave : identification; psychanalyses; political psychologie; cognitive dissonance.

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