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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...

Discontent in the family makes it speak. It is as if, around the family, after having shaken up the prerogatives of patriarchy, speech has, as they say, been freed. We hear the equivocation; on the one...

One will never be able to say what “the” family passes on. At the core of “each one”, there is jouissance , beyond compare, unrivalled. There is no family without jouissance. But nonetheless, there is no...

There are ideals, and there is the residue. They are not of the same order. Family ideals organise an entire field where the child is structured, while simultaneously distancing from these ideals by not fulfilling...

Here we are at the departure gate for the seventh edition of the Famil newsletter. It will enable us to read the world as it is, as well as its consequences for the social bond...

To illustrate the first PIPOL 12 newsletter, published on January 16, 2025, Philip Metz offered us the inverted image of a train. Even before departure, the train had derailed. In French, the imperfect tense sometimes leaves...

“According to Freud, transference marks the adoption of the analyst by the subject – the analyst enters, so to speak, into the family and benefits from the authority which was that of the father or...

In 1975 at Columbia University, Lacan questions the inclination of a subject in analysis – led to say no matter what – to come to speak of his particular family, to speak of “that by...