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During his entire living, the human is characterized by his dependency. For the clinician, it is not a matter of knowing if one is dependent or not, but rather of considering the psycho(patho)logical specificity of his dependency and his future through the multiple tasks of differentiation and then separation. From the lessons brought up through perinatal practice, this paper tries to highlight the too frequently unrecognized importance of repressed time before the separation : the time of differentiation, of initial impotence and of absolute dependency. The virtue of this deviation is to encourage a psychoanalytical psycho(patho)logy of dependency which does not scotomize the fundamental anthropological situation where the fragility inherent in our neotony’s dependency imposes itself as the potentially major axis of our human creativity, but also of some of its wreckages.