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In today’s society, we are used to seeing and knowing everything about everybody. But paradoxically, the concept of what is “intimate” becomes increasingly significant as it indicates a space closed to the gaze of the Other and of the subject themselves. Intimate acts are how the infans takes comfort in what is not yet unconscious, but precedes it and determines the conditions of its emergence. At this stage, the infans must speak, led by what Pascal Quignard describes as the “maternal sonata,” which determines the power of the invocatory drive. It indicates an original narcissistic breadth which could shift the main trauma from sight to voice. According to our assumption, it is precisely in this original root that the symbolic system becomes inscribed in the real, according to Lacan’s three registers of human experience: the real, the symbolic and the imaginary. This is a space where the subject forms an original, intimate, and primitive relation with the signifier.