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The [[Family ]] [[Complexes]], transl. by Carolyn Asp in Critical [[Texts]], vol.5, issue 3, 1988. Also transl. by Andrea Kahn in Semiotext 10, vol. 4, 1, 1981. In Autres [[Écrits]], [[Paris]]: Seuil, 2001.

This article is easy to read. It was commissioned for the Encyclopedic Fran�raise by Wallon who, at the [[time]], was a professor at the Sorbonne. It posits two esscntial notions of [[Lacan]]'s [[theory]]: the [[mirror ]] [[stage ]] (8, 18); and the [[double ]] [[paternal function ]] of "[[repression]]" and "[[sublimation]]," which are the single source of [[cultural ]] values. Shedding light on [[other ]] more difficult works, it helps measure the subsequent continuities and disruptions. To the same questions were there other solutions? Or were the same fundamental options theorized differently? The introduction defines "the familial institution." The fisrt part argues for the [[notion ]] of "[[complex]]" instead of "[[instinct]]," so as to [[construct ]] the individ�ual's [[psychic ]] [[development ]] around [[three ]] successive [[structures]]: "the complex of wcaning." "the complex of intrusion" where the [[mirror stage ]] appears, and the [[Oedipus ]] complex. The second part describes [[psychoses ]] and [[neuroses ]] by opposing [[them ]] according to the different functions played by the familial complex. [[Analytic ]] [[technique ]] is clearly reserved for neuroses. At the intersec�tion of "experimental [[psychology]]" and "[[psychoanalytic ]] investigations,'~ but also of ethno-[[sociology ]] and [[history]], Lacan wishes to "revise" the Oedipus complcx, but he also modifies the pre-Oedipus [[stages]]. The seeds of the [[future ]] doctrinal conflicts are already [[present ]] in this [[text]]. Nevertheless, his uncondi�tional praise of the "paternalist" family, his vibrant regrets over "the [[social ]] decline of the paternal [[image]]" (indeed its "decadence") and over the in�creased [[role ]] of thc [[mother ]] or of [[woman]], could only have pleased many-and in all camps.