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Clinical analysis of the results of developmental research (Meltzoff) allows us to conceive of a baby with a prenatal ego at birth, enabling it first to identify itself and then to identify with the other. The representation of models of expectation in the relationship will be the earliest locus and nature of psychic trauma, in the form of a “violation of expectation”.