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Affect-based mirror play, which can sometimes be deployed in certain imitative sequences with the autistic child, is liable to trigger rare and intense moments of jubilation. The representational traces of this experience of satisfaction are sometimes difficult to find again owing to the autistic child’s difficulty in repeating, according to the pleasure principle, situations experienced with the object. Nevertheless, “something” remains, namely, a repetition that is transformed and often reified, but which attests to an initial meshing of the drives, a first level of drive fusion, and which allows for the formation of a primary sadism that has become tolerable for the child’s mind.