Identification

"Identification" is usually used as meaning "sympathy" in psychology. However, I can not understand whether its highlighted uses in the following context mean "sympathy" or "recognition and understanding". What is your idea?

Context:

Lacan’s ‘The Mirror-Stage’ gives an account of the enmeshed nature of the Imaginary realm of reflection and the Symbolic register of language in the sense that while, in terms of the former, the infant (mis)identifies himself in the image of wholeness reflected back to him in the mirror, this misrecognition is affirmed by the gaze of the Other, let’s say the mother, who is of course situated in the Symbolic register of language. The mirror identification is thereby bolstered by language. Fanon explores the linguistic underbelly of imaginary identification, giving the example of being on a train and asking another passenger, ‘“I beg your pardon, sir, would you mind telling me where the dining-car is?”. The passenger responds: “Sure fella. You go out door, see, of corridor, you go straight, go one car, go two car, go three car, you there.”’ The use of ‘pidgin’ subjugates the black man as inferior, positioning him as that which is other to the white man, a foil for the white’s man’s own alienation from himself, which he disavows in his misrecognition of himself as superior and as synonymous with his ego ideal.