Lemma of Whitehead

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this is the lemma of Whitehead enter image description here

And i really don't understand the proof enter image description here

How to see that $k$ is well defined (i.e how to write an element from $X\cup_{\varphi_i}e^{\lambda} , i=0,1$ )

and how to write $l$ ?

Please

Thank you