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During a session, cultural etiologies reveal their many functions, both conscious and unconscious. In particular, they give sense to traumatic events like the handicap of a child. But their richness appears above all when we hear them as an expression of transference. Then, we discover that, behind their cultural context, they can also be the search for a container, the repetition of a present or a past history, the disguised expression of a childish fantasy, or anticipation reply. In all cases, hearing cultural etiologies as the expression of transference becomes the foundation of the work of cocreation.