Identification is always constructed through ambivalence and splitting.

Evidence

Secondly, identity means, or connotes, the process of identification, of saying that this here is the same as that, or we are the same together, in this respect. But something we have learned from the whole discussion of identification, in feminism and psychoanalysis, is the degree to which that structure of identification is always constructed through ambivalence. Always constructed through splitting. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 204

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reworks ‘identity’ from noun to the verb ‘identification,’ and marks it as ambivalent and split at its core — a key mechanism for how in-group/out-group construction operates.
• XREF: Identification-through-ambivalence/splitting is the psychoanalytic mechanism that underlies othering: the Muslim ‘Other’ as a split-off projection. Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia readings it will be carried into.