Family Residue

The child now occupies the function of residue – the remainder of the sexual non-rapport between the parents. Residue indicates the position of object a that the child occupies in the construction of the family, as...

At the end of the PIPOL 11 Congress, on the clinic and the critique of patriarchy, Jacques-Alain Miller uses the term “vaporisation” first of the father and then of the mother. While he situates the...

In Freud’s time, marriage was the symbolic foundation of the family to come. Its ritualised practice was the norm. It was based on a legal predicate inherited from Roman law: Mater semper certa est , Pater...

Lacan quoted Durkheim on the “contraction of the family institution”  ranging from the ancient Roman gens to the family centred on patria potestas to the “conjugal family” with mother, father and children. Modern families often...

Patriarchy, as the incarnation of the Name of the Father, ensured the stability of family constellations. It was akin to Kepler's law describing the motion of celestial bodies around the sun, where the central position...

We are at the aftermath of the youth revolt of the year 1968, a historical moment of political and social unrest, a period marked by numerous changes in morals, in particular sexual ones, it is...