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The paraverbal elements of verbalization transmit significant content in analysis and provide an access to the unconscious. Liberman feels that we must take into account all the elements of verbalization: the style, the selection of words, etc. Paraverbal factors appear as a way of codifying concepts that a child cannot yet convert to spoken language. The repetition compulsion is usually expressed in paraverbal elements. These elements contain specific types of unconscious fantasy which may or may not appear in a repetitive series, or as a recurrent element in the progress of the session. It is clearly shown in the way a repetitive dream occurs. The detection of such cyclic and repetitive fantasies will permit the analyst to make more efficient therapeutic interventions.