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Associativity allows the child to enjoy favourable psychic functioning. However, in so-called “pre-psychotic” children, it does not provide an outcome for excitation, but reinforces its intensity. With them, the analytic work no longer aims to develop associativity but to detoxify it without extinguishing it.