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The issue number 13 of Ombilic invites us to a new walk around the imperceptible mysteries of the origin and of the predicate of the (non) desire of child and of family. This brought me...

"Waves pass: of cold, of fear, of rage, of impotence, of insubordination, of unconditional protest... Waves; to land where?” Henri Michaux, Coups d'arrêt Le Combat ordinaire could be synonymous with the English expression struggle...

It may still happen, that expecting a child without being in the “ad hoc” framework of marriage plunges a woman into terrible throes of despair. Fearing to be the family disgrace, sometimes devoured with shame,...

By pairing the desire for a child with almost unlimited possibilities, scientific advances now promise to overcome the contingent impossibility that has hitherto limited the will to procreate. In fact, if there is no longer...

To give life, to build a family, to have a child, entails for the subject who engages his desire in it, a “subjective mutation.” The act it constitutes, Jacques-Alain Miller tells us, if it is...

“To want is a jouissance” which in a woman can occasionally take the form of whim, “a Will outside the law.” Where the law tries to restrain the Will, whim suddenly appears, outside the...

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. Pina Bausch   How can we live? (...) How can we dance today? . These are the questions that struck Pina Bausch, a major figure in contemporary dance...

Chance, maybe specific to the charm of radio, made me come across a so-called secular program last Saturday , in which Anne Morelli intervened to discuss what, according to her, could cause a religion...

I want a child I want a child I want in my womb To feel the blood, the life in it, I want a child. (By the duo Brigitte) This fifth issue of OMBILIC, following...

“I was not there the night I was conceived. It is difficult to witness the day that precedes you. An image is missing in the soul. We depend on a posture that occurred in a...