Abstract:
In this paper, we question the role played by a welcoming center for children up to three years old and their parents. After a brief description of this device, which is inspired by the French model of the Maison Verte created by Françoise Dolto, we discuss the functioning of different institutions in early childhood and we question the welcoming center’s role. We defend that it occupies a function called interval, since it allows the introduction of a possible space in the bond between young children and their parents and thus favors the separation and the emergence of the subject of desire.
Keywords:
welcoming place; psychoanalysis with young children; institutions; paternal function