Let us consider, for example, the milk the baby throws up when it burps; it is at one and the same time the restitution of something that has been levied from the associative flux (restitution de prelevement sur Ie flux associatif); the reproduction of the process of detachment from the signifying chain (reproduction de detachement sur la chaine signifiante); and a residuum (residui that constitutes the subject's share of the whole.