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The relation between the child and the animated pictures he is watching on television during his leisures or his games not only involves his intersubjectivity as a player or a spectator. The child narcissistic cathexis is strong enough for him to establish with the characters a real « transference ». These pictures also provide him the most various identificatory references which are frequently linked to his body image. From a very little knowledge of the child mediatic world, the therapist makes his way through many difficulties, from the consented imaginary flight to the bringing into play of a real symbolisation which can be verbalized.