From the point of view of the psychic processes at stake, the psychoanalytical training makes prevail the secondary interjective identification of the candidate with the didactician, identification to his availability, to his firmness, to his desire to make push and to repair, to his determination to solve the psychic conflicts, the accesses of anguish, the inhibitions, by their analysis, on the primary and projective identification to the psychoanalysis, to the patients to the colleagues.Finally, the possibility of establishing, through thought, differences based on reality and no longer on...

All that has been said about play in children allows us to present here only a few remarks on the use of play in psychoanalysis and child psychotherapy.The ex-pressive and creative possibilities of play undoubtedly explain why it constitutes in itself a valid modality of psychotherapy. Psychoanalysts obviously cannot neglect, as we have just shown, the relational implications linked to their presence. They can be summarised as follows:a°) playing in the presence of an adult who provides toys, who leaves one free to play as one wishes and what one wishes, constitutes the essential dynamic of...