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[[Transitivism]] ([[FrenchFr]]: . ''[[transitivisme]]'') -- a phenomenon first discovered by Charlotte Bühler -- refers to a special kind of [[identification]] often observed in the behaviour of small [[children]]. <ref>{{E}} p.5</ref>
For example a [[child]] can hit another [[child]] of the same age on the left side of his face, and then touch the right side of his own face and cry in imagined pain.
[[Transitivism]] is also evident in [[paranoia]], in which attack and counter-attack are bound together "in an absolute equivalence."
==See Also==
* [[Development]]
* [[Ego]]
* [[Identification]]
* [[Mirror stage]]
* [[Paranoia]]
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