It may still happen, that expecting a child without being in the “ad hoc” framework of marriage plunges a woman...

In his 1966 conference performed in the Salpêtrière hospital, Jacques Lacan evokes the meaning of « the demand » with reference...

The unlimitedness of the desire for a child Reproduction is nowadays manipulated by science, which has itself become the...

By pairing the desire for a child with almost unlimited possibilities, scientific advances now promise to overcome the contingent impossibility...

To give life, to build a family, to have a child, entails for the subject who engages his desire in...

“In the beginning, there was not the origin. There was the place” , says Lacan, making the words of Genesis resonate...

The interventions of technology on living beings do not cease to produce, in contemporary times “more and more surprising disruptions...

Fatherhood sometimes encounters a burning question echoed by Daniel Mendelsohn’s work The Elusive Embrace . What does a man realize...

While re-reading the “Note on the Father” for this occasion, my attention was caught by the expression “evaporation of the...

From the study of Freud's work, Lacan will highlight how polymorphous the relation to the father is in Freud. The...