The Maladies of the Father

In his introductory text of the section “The Maladies of the father”, Fabian Fajnwaks lists some examples of a father’s modes of existence at play in these maladies. Let us add to this series another...

At the age of twenty-three, Violette d’Urso wrote her first novel, Even the noise of the night has changed (Même le bruit de la nuit a changé). Daughter of Inès de la Fressange and Luigi...

A writer since The Officers’ Ward, Marc Dugain has written an autobiographical book titled La Volonté (The Will), in which he builds his own story on the figure of a heroic father. After his mother’s...

Laura Poitras’ documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, takes us to the heart of the artistic and political struggles of Nan Goldin, a...

Jacques Lacan made famous an expression by Freud, the “little man” (“petit d’homme”). By using it, he shows his respect, his particularised interest, endeavouring to mark what the child had been confronted with and what...

“The father is a symptom or a sinthome”. This is how Lacan introduces us to his identification. With patriarchy not offering any compass anymore, fathers are not only numerous, but also weakened, jostled by an...

C’est pas grave, a short story of children’s literature, published in 2022 (first published in 2010) begins with a little rabbit who spills his bowl of milk and bursts into tears. Daddy rabbit replies with...

In 2015, for his first steps in theater, Arnaud Desplechin directs The Father, after a play of the same name by August Strindberg. Written in the late 19th century, this play denounces the hypocrisy of...

Fed up with the father We are witnessing the end of the era of the father, the end of a hegemony that ensured a certain symbolic order. A time that is coming to an end,...

Taking an interest in the maladies of the father implies approaching him from the side of his relationship to surplus jouissance , as Lacan defines it in his last teaching. The exception that the...