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From a psychoanalytic perspective the pleasures of rhyme are inextricably tied to basic developmental features of the separation phase, and in particular to the creation of a magical subjective realm in which the child continues to possess the object at the same time he is giving the object up (dual-unity). A psychoanalytic approach to rhyme deepens our understanding of theories which derive from the mainstream of literary criticism.