The Association de la Cause freudienne in Belgium gathered last weekend for its Annual Assembly in a packed hall, cheerfully...

This week, PIPOL 12 offers us a kaleidoscope — a kaleidoscope of discontents within the family. Georges Didi-Huberman  reminds us that the...

Family is an invariant of all human society. Lévi-Strauss, whom Lacan knew well, had demonstrated this in a number of...

The child comes into the world as an object – this is its first status – it endures language and...

Vanessa Springora's Surname (Patronyme), is as striking for the rigour of her approach, as for her assumption of a dare...

“The family itself is dignified and respectable only insofar as it can be a place where everyone can find space...

In Freud’s time, marriage was the symbolic foundation of the family to come. Its ritualised practice was the norm. It...

There was a time when the Name-of-the-Father was a generalized reference point (re-père) that allowed subjects to use it as...

In her recently published story La faille  (The flaw), in which the word “family” (“famille”) is deliberately missing a letter,...

It is when illness threatens to erase her family’s history forever that the protagonist of this first-person narrative decides to...