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In this live session, we will discuss the issue of transference and resistance in clinical practice with children. We will discuss the importance of preliminary interviews for establishing transference. First, we will acknowledge that there is no transference without resistance and that treatment is only possible by managing it. Then, we will investigate how the parents' complaints are articulated, through similarities and differences, with the demand for treatment. Finally, we will locate the subject of the clinic, namely the child and not the parents. As we know, throughout any psychoanalytic treatment, one should not seek to standardize desire, that is, one should not seek to impose the discourse that comes from the parents on the subject. The ethics of psychoanalysis remind us that psychoanalysis authorizes rebellion, the right to deviance, to be oneself, different from everyone else, to be singular. How can analysis with children fulfill this same ethical commitment as clinical practice with adults?