“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...

These family words, which sometimes speak to us and traverse us, and sometimes represent us on the stage of the...

In his article "Affairs of the Family in the Unconscious,” Jacques-Alain Miller states that “the place of the family remains...

Discontent in the family makes it speak. It is as if, around the family, after having shaken up the prerogatives of...

One will never be able to say what “the” family passes on. At the core of “each one”, there is...

Lacan quoted Durkheim on the “contraction of the family institution”  ranging from the ancient Roman gens to the family centred...