ABSTRACT
The term “indexation” involves an analyst's intervention or interpretation, irrespective of the analytic setting, whether it is with a child or an adult and irrespective of the content of what follows, whether it be silence, or any positive or negative element. What is particular to the child is the variety of his expressive registers: he can pass from verbal expression to acting out, to drawing, writing, and to the play that is characteristic of a child. This variety and rapidity of the changes that take place often lead the analyst to dwell less on the contents than to follow the process and even the microprocesses that are unfolding, while taking into account the possible manifestations that occur. Noting or pointing up one of these manifestations as the trace of something, as the visible emergence of an earlier movement that is in fact infiltrated libidinally and/or destructively, makes it possible to draw the patient's attention to an unconscious logic.
