Helene Deutsch has described a personality type which she designated the "as if" personality. These individuals exhibit a defective capacity to relate to others. Rather, they have pseudoaffective relationships through identification with, and mimicry of others.
Olenka, the heroine of Chekhov's "The Darling," is presented as an individual with the "as if" condition.
Such behavior is thought to reflect a defective.....
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