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Written and spoken language disorders, dyslexia-dysorthographia, must be considered as a symptom. Indeed it bears witness to the psychopathological mechanisms at work in the child and particularly in its deep concern faced with the risks it runs as to its place within the modifications to its framework. The child stages this real or phantasized risk and transposes it in writing by wrongly postioning letters and syllables. Now he situates them as if they were real persons in places he finds more tolerable depending on his psychic economy.