Name-of-the-father ?

The work proposal put forward by PIPOL 10 points out at least three terms that need to be worked on from the outset: parenthood, family and filiation. These terms are to be distinguished and articulated....

Her life has been marked by successive dramas which are as many traumas: the separation of her parents, the accidental death of her older brother, depression and then the premature death of her mother, found...

The new clinical element that Lacan introduces into the approach to the maternal position is the dissociation of the mother as mother from the mother as woman, as Jacques-Alain Miller indicates in his compass text “The...

Fatherhood sometimes encounters a burning question echoed by Daniel Mendelsohn’s work The Elusive Embrace . What does a man realize with the arrival of his child into the world? What enigma is lodged at the...

While re-reading the “Note on the Father” for this occasion, my attention was caught by the expression “evaporation of the father” that Lacan uses in this intervention. Why does he use this term to address...

From the study of Freud's work, Lacan will highlight how polymorphous the relation to the father is in Freud. The vanishing of the father, noticed by Lacan in 1968 in a reply to Michel Certau,...

Family is not natural, it is not a biological fact, it is a social fact In 1898, in his text Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses, Freud declared that “one of the most important...

To understand what our practice of psychoanalysis specifies, it may be useful to look at ourselves from the outside, addressing our critics. There is an orientation in the Lacanian galaxy that sees the Freudian Field...

Does the desire for a child pass through the Name-of-the-Father or can it do without? If the symbolic father has always operated as a law, - he is “the signifier which gives support to the...