Current Clinical Practice in the Face of the Crisis of Patriarchy

Abstract

This paper addresses the Lacanian perspective from the "decline of the paternal imago" with respect to the current symbolic system, marked and criticized by patriarchy, in a context of globalization whose effects can be seen in the multiplicity of identities and in the phenomena of segregation.  The proposal about the "evaporation of the father" does not refer to its disappearance, but to the metaphor of evaporation in Physics understood as the gradual passage from a liquid state to a gaseous state, in a dissemination of particles that become invisible to the naked eye. In this sense, we can speak of a dissemination of the symbolic function as well as other forms of naming that the subject of our time takes to represent himself, in a current clinic oriented by knotting and unknotting via the sinthome and by the compass of ordinary psychosis.