The objective of this article is to question certain discourses regarding the beginnings of the structuring of the subject, in order to next construct hypotheses as to what is involved in the experience of newborn babies in an ICU. For this purpose, we will compare the condition of the biological organism and medical interventions into the functions of speech and language as determinant of what will be constituted as trauma. We will also discuss how to approach the question of time in children's processes of subjectivation.
Newborn babies; psychoanalysis; ICU; language; trauma; time