Le temps du post-partum immédiat. Une clinique du « qui-vive » et de l'après coup

From a clinical experiment with parents and their infant in a Parent-Baby Therapeutic Centre, the author explores three types of psychic temporality which weave the screen of the immediate postpartum: the synchronic time of the baby, the diachronic time of the mother and the afterwards necessary made by the excessive experiment of the birth, and finally the time of the socius, which stresses and frames the psychic work of becoming parent or baby by ritual proposals. With the current failure of the rituality around the birth, the devices of care in perinatality can then act as rites of passage.