Questioning the person constitution from the analysis of an episode involving two babies and a caregiver, video recorded in a public day-care center of Florianópolis/SC, it was studied the genesis of the significance processes, observing the dynamic of the relations caregiver-babies. Based on the theoretical framework of the historical-cultural psychology, especially the contributions of Lev Smionovitch Vygotski, which considers the double dimension of the human being, subject and subjected, the importance of the Other in the process of significance and person constitution is pointed out, but it is also included the active participation of the I, social and historically produced.
person constitution; significance process; historical cultural psychology