To do without / to make use of it

In his autobiography entitled A Restless Man, Portrait of the Artist as a Son, a Madman Gérard Garouste testifies to the way he tracked down the faults of fathers, his own, but also those of...

In his autobiography, Johnny Cash (1932-2003), the famous country and rock’n roll singer, looks back on the enigma his father was to him and questions the influence the latter had on his life. Dropped by...

It is interesting to explore certain aspects of contemporary education in terms of the clinic and critique of patriarchy. A starting point could be the new Education Act in Bulgaria which introduces the concept of...

In Force Majeure, a 2014 film directed and written by Ruben Östlund, a Swedish family, Tomas, Ebba and their two children, are at a ski resort in the French Alps. The holiday is supposed to...

When it is difficult to talk to one another, writing can be a mediation. In 1984, Annie Ernaux is awarded the Renaudot Prize for one of her autobiographical texts, A Man’s Place, the one of...

In 1970, Lacan argues that he always wanted someone to make a hole in the paternal metaphor. He himself had made this attempt a few years earlier by pluralizing the Name-of-the-Father, but he was “gagged”,...

The father is a function of the transmission of lack, a cultural function. It presupposes the contradiction between the necessity of a mythical father outside castration and the castration of every possible man. Without this...

Lacan said that we need psychoanalysts to survive the real. We have science, but the problem is that it decided to plant its roots in a constancy observable in the universe where things have a...

Among the fathers that the Bible celebrates, there is one – Noah, whose story is quite surprising. He has set many biblical commentators and exegetes to work. Chosen by God as the saviour of the human...

Meanings of the word patriarch The word patriarch (πατριάρχης) is composed of the words “πατριά” (patria) and “αρχή” (archè). The meanings of patria vary, but its radical comes from the word “πατέρας” (patéras, the father)....