What is special about retraction mapping?

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What is special about the retraction mapping? Can't we always find such a mapping, namely identity map of $X$. Then every space $A$ will be a retract of $X$.

EDIT: Do we need retraction to be continuous?

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The identity map of $X$ only shows that $X$ is a retract of itself. For any proper subspace $A$ of $X$, $1_X$ is not a map from $X$ to $A$.