The phrase "act of identification" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the process or action of recognizing or establishing the identity of someone or something.
Example: "The act of identification is crucial in ensuring that only authorized personnel have access to sensitive information."
Alternatives: "process of identification" or "identification procedure".
Truly to recapture an earlier time, she said, required years of research, together with a mystical act of identification.
On the other side, George Steiner honors Plath for her "act of identification, of total communion with those tortured and massacred".
Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification.
Rather, it is always the result of an act of identification.
How does a writer establish connection with readers when the very act of identification threatens to render those readers victims or voyeurs?
Every cognition of an intelligible is an act of identification of subject and object, no material barrier existing between them.[62] Knowledge of the Agent Intellect, however, is thought to surpass everything else, its content uniquely and totally comprehensive.
Gould's fascination with Bach is utterly trans-historical and marks one of the great intellectual acts of identification, and self-identification, in modern art: the blend of harmonic complexity, contrapuntal density, and often-turbulent propulsiveness comes off, in Gould's playing, as something of a sonic representation beyond words of his inner life, a sort of idealized self-portrait.
Second, the identity theory of integrity ties integrity to commitments with which an agent identifies, but acts of identification can be ill-informed, superficial and foolish.
"In an act of symbiotic identification, Barak has brought Israel into a constitutional frenzy reminiscent of what is taking place in America," Chemi Shalev wrote under the headline "Act of Kamikaze" in the newspaper Maariv.
In an essay for Art + Object writer and curator Peter Simpson called the painting "McCahon's most profound act of imaginative identification with Maoritanga, arguably the most profound ever achieved by a Pakeha.
This line of evidence, coupled with the findings that appraisal of coherence occurs before the act of object identification (because this appraisal is activated via fast pathways that initially bypass bottom-up analysis), explains why the feeling of knowing is often associated with an affective experience: the feeling of knowing arises at the gut level.
