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For several decades now, a radical change of paradigm has been taking place in society. We seem to be in an era marked by generalized suspicion, a race for time, the valorization of the gadget object, and the promotion of the Übermensch ideal. Technological-scientific methods and hastily deployed informational networks raise ethical, sociological, and anthropological questions. Individuals today are “ready to act as if they only existed for one day,” said Tocqueville. The modern era seems to be characterized by the “melancholization of social ties,” producing a cohort of new symptoms specific to the new master discourse of civilization. This “cult of urgency,” valorized as a new Moloch, reveals the figure of a ravaging superego. The disarticulation of our relationship to time (intrinsically linked to our self-representation and our environment) undermines our fundamental reference points, our practices of care. Man, however, needs a stable and permanent space-time to feel alive. Based on a practice in ESAT ( Établissement et service d'aide par le travail), we will see how this subjective time of each person is necessary if subjectivity is to come into being.