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To open the debate, the author undertakes to present some contributions from the clinical treatment of early childhood. For this, he draws on some statements Freud made at the end of his life about the importance of early experiences and the difficulty of meaningfully integrating them, as well as on their preservation in sensori-perceptual forms. He then suggests the foundations on which these early experiences can ? become language ? and forms the hypothesis that their recognition and initial echo??sation by the primary environment are preconditions for this process.