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From very early on, Jacques Lacan reminded psychoanalysts not to underestimate the effects of the social and political field on subjectivity, eventually defining, alongside neurosis and psychosis, a particular modality of the subject’s relationship to speech, determined by the “de-subjectifying” effects of science. By using this supposedly scientific objectivity, the newly established classification categories used in today’s clinical work with children and the new institutions of social control they give rise to and that are reinforced by the present-day school system prevent the child’s speech from being heard. The author aims to show that a number of tools provided by Lacan, particularly in the last stages of his work, such as the importance of jouissance, the function of “being named at” [ nommé-à] which replaces the “Name-of-the-Father,” or the writing of the fifth discourse—the “discourse of the capitalist”—can shed light on the functioning of the process of subjectivation in these “children of science” and the difficulties this creates for the psychoanalyst in orienting treatment.