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The preparation in advance for Family and its Discontents is coming to an end. We will soon be gathered to share, with our bodies, this tremendous work that the large family of the Euro-Federation of...

With a week to go before plunging into ‘‘Family and its discontents’’, the texts are abounding. The acceleration of productions on the road to the congress could make one’s head spin, even give vertigo... In...

On the poster concocted for our next Congress, Family and Its Discontents, we can notice the cutting of the signifier dis-con-tents (mal-aise, in French), which indicates a caesura that emphasises the inherent discomfort in the...

Patience! Our translators are working on it!

Patience! Our translators are working on it!

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...