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The educational workshops offered to children in art centers are conceptualized most of the time as an appreciation of self-respect. In this article, I shall attempt to go further by demonstrating that artistic mediation aims to go one beyond the image brought into play by the Freudian self. Indeed, an artistic practice can bring participants to encounter an intimate point within themselves but which is foreign to them. To achieve this, the mediators have to position themselves as accompanying persons placing knowledge on the side of the child. This pedagogy is not therefore a transmission but the discovery of a knowledge that is unknown at first. So, by attending such workshops, some children can have an encounter there, an encounter with an intimate part of themselves that up until then has been underestimated. It is then a question of opening a window onto the ek-sistence of a point of real, in the Lacanian sense, always discordant and present in each. This point understood in this way could secondly agree with the others and with the world: moving away from conformity and relying upon its desire to be oriented in existence.