Artigo:

In this communication we present some subjective differences between temporality in child and adults. Infanthood is not only a period of life witch has some inherent properties and limits but also a time that constitutes itself as a singular way of positing oneself in time, either we consider time as duration or in the sense of the subjectification of things and their meanings. We can deduced from this assumptions the hypothesis that time must be considered as a crucial clinical operator in the maneuver of interventions upon a child, particularly in hospitalization and illness. The child in treatment must assemble his or her own temporal integration witch comprehends intuition, comprehension and conclusion, the aspects embedded in his or her medical condition. Far from that he or she must accept and integrate in this process the temporality of emergency, urgency and convalescence with determines the institutional process of cure. In the space of this confrontation between temporalities, considered from a methodological perspective, the same action could be taken as proper care or as iatrogenic violence. In order to illustrate and conceptualized this phenomena we will take examples from the old Hellenistic practice of taking-care of oneself, from the occidental period when infancy emerges as a separate moment of life, and from our own contemporary era and its contexts of time acceleration and generalized urgency.