Fixated children were given a 'second infancy' with a 'corrective identification'. To a three-and-one-half-year-old girl with delayed development a special teacher, with analytic understanding, gave a 'constant, consistent need-satisfying relationship'. This allowed her to make a corrective identification to build up and strengthen her ego functions. An anaclitic relationship was established, the child operating on a primitive level, satisfying her old needs and reworking her infancy. After this she made multiple incorporative identifications with other children. The teacher acted as the voice of reality and it appears that she also