Transmissions/Tensions

Family is an invariant of all human society. Lévi-Strauss, whom Lacan knew well, had demonstrated this in a number of his articles, including in 1945 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology and also in...

Vanessa Springora's Surname (Patronyme), is as striking for the rigour of her approach, as for her assumption of a dare to know at the very place where everything plays in favour of discouragement. The investigation...

In his article "Affairs of the Family in the Unconscious,” Jacques-Alain Miller states that “the place of the family remains linked to the language that one speaks, which is to say that to speak, to...

I would like to comment briefly on the citation from Jacques-Alain Miller that Katty Langelez-Stevens has introduced in the PIPOL 12 argument: “the family is formed by the Name-of-the-Father, by the Mother’s desire, by the...

Transmission The family has been the place of symbolic inscription in society through the family name, a signifier that orders its members in a line between the past and the future. In addition to the...