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"[[Transitivism]] " ([[Fr]]. ''[[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.