Studies about the relation mother-baby reveal that the tie that involve this pair, in the
case of a premature birth, presents specificities, being necessary to investigate the effect
of the prematurity in this relationship, once that the researches in several areas show
that the effects of that primordial tie reflects in the posterior development of the child.
In this perspective, this dissertation is about an investigation of the exercise of the
maternal function in one critical situation that is the premature birth. One of the specific
issues of the prematurity found in this work with the mother is the difficulty of a
libidinal investment in a little child, thin and fragile, due to her organic condition, that
nothing resembles the imaginary son. The question is analyzed in a perspective that
articulates psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, showing the reciprocal
influences, between prematurity, disturbances of the tie mother-baby, maternal function,
psychopathology of the baby and subjective constitution. The clinical material
constitutes of fragments of studies of articulated cases to the theoretical material, the
listening of the mothers and the observation (readout) of the babies. The fragments
allows to each reader to do his own construction even if it is to controvert the author, for
as Derrida says, it is necessary deconstruct a knowledge to have new constructions,
what corroborates Lacan referring that the knowledge is always a not-all. The interest in
investigating the theme is in the possibility of reflections that may be useful to the work
of other professionals involved with the health and the developments of babies and
children.
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