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The Association de la Cause freudienne in Belgium gathered last weekend for its Annual Assembly in a packed hall, cheerfully hosted by our president Céline Poblome-Aulit, to hear Virginie Leblanc-Roïc teach us about manic-depressive psychosis....

This week, PIPOL 12 offers us a kaleidoscope — a kaleidoscope of discontents within the family. Georges Didi-Huberman  reminds us that the kaleidoscope, also known as a "transfigurator," was invented in 1817. He also notes that what...

The child comes into the world as an object – this is its first status – it endures language and is marked by it. This orientation provides a fundamental clinical compass  and runs through several...

“The family itself is dignified and respectable only insofar as it can be a place where everyone can find space for their residual particularity.”  Through the articles in this issue, you will discover how, within...

There was a time when the Name-of-the-Father was a generalized reference point (re-père) that allowed subjects to use it as a support around which they constructed themselves or against which they rebelled. Today, they bypass...

In her recently published story La faille  (The flaw), in which the word “family” (“famille”) is deliberately missing a letter, Blandine Rinkel explores the conditions that allow a subject to extricate themselves, like the missing...

It is when illness threatens to erase her family’s history forever that the protagonist of this first-person narrative decides to undertake a journey towards that unknown land, towards that country from which her ancestors were...

These family words, which sometimes speak to us and traverse us, and sometimes represent us on the stage of the world, fracture and decompose over the course of an analysis. They then take on an...