Authoritarianisms

So, Galilei, Newton, Einstein Heisenberg, and co. So, the astrolabe, the pendular clock, the steam engine, and co. The Father declines, we hear – what a winsome equivocation. Since when? Shall we say 1633 (G.G. is...

In recent years we have discussed the drift of the displacement of the signifiers Ladies’ bathroom and Gentlemen’s bathroom to the signifier Mixed bathroom. As early as 1957, in his Écrits, “The Instance of the...

In his 1942 work, The Notion of Authority, Alexandre Kojève echoes at the political level what Lacan had already underlined in his 1938 text “Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual” concerning the decline...

« I am Petra’s father ». This is how Lydia, conductor of the prestigious Berlin Symphony Orchestra, introduces herself to the child who is harassing her daughter, with Lydia threatening the latter in an obscene manner. In...

Published in 2021 by Grasset, Et ces êtres sans pénis! is the fifteenth book in a long series since 2002, in which the writer, Chahdortt Djavann, tackles themes that are deeply rooted: Iran, women, the...

The Father is still well preserved and has good days ahead. As an analyst and as a woman, with others, we deplore it. As crudely and cruelly evidenced by Joyland, a film by the young...

Being as jouissance ? May 1968. The Name-of-the-Father, already well undermined, is defeated. This is the intoxication of the revolution ! Other than the « conservatives », no one dares to refer to the patriarchy. Jacques Lacan, an « anti-progressive »,...

In our Greco-Judeo-Christian society, few texts have been read, recited, prayed, and commented on as much as the Our Father. Coming from a patriarchal society, it could not but transpose an imaginary that feeds fantasies,...

In the 21st century, a change is occurring. Through the term « patriarchy », it is no longer a question of the function of the Name-of-the-Father, the one that Lacan considered as a condition for the constitution...

Interrogating the notion of patriarchy takes us beyond the clinic, but not without the tools of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lacan had announced The triumph of religion because « religion is tireless », and also because it gives « a...