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HEINEMANN, Giovana Bessa Borges  y  CHATELARD, Daniela Scheinkman. Current conception of family: the decline of paternal role to new symptoms. Rev.Mal-Estar Subj [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.3-4, pp.639-662. ISSN 1518-6148.

This paper aims to analyze the Lacanian psychoanalysis' concept postulated as paternal function decline in family constitution in the contemporary culture - where there is a supremacy of the master speech through the science speech articulated with capitalism - and its consequences in the formation of the so-called new symptoms. With the paternal function decline, there is a supremacy of the "plus-de-jouir" over the Name-of-the Father, i.e., what prevails in the current culture are the objects "a". Psychoanalysis proposes to think the paternal function in significant terms: the father as a Name and mother as Desire. The father, mother and child must be understood from their significant functions. Thus, the formula for the subject constitution can be thought of from their relations in the family. This study is a critical bibliography review about the theme, having as main sources Lacan and Freud ideas as well as some of their followers. The article is divided in three parts: the first is an explanation of conceptions about the new family; the second deals with the Name-of-the-Father and its decline, and the third discuss the new symptoms. We firstly concluded that the actual conjuncture of the globalized world leads to different modes of "jouissance" and symptoms, secondly, that the current family conception enables new forms of social bonds and it does not necessarily create different clinical types.

Palabras clave : Paternal function; Name(s)-of-the-Father; Family; symptom; Jouissance.

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