ABSTRACT
Anxiety is only surmounted when the Other is named. Of love, there is nothing more than the name, as each of us knows from experience. The seminar L'angoisse starts with the object that marks the endpoint of Le transfert. It goes from the anxiety of a subject confronted with the enigmatic desire of the Other and the imminence of his reduction to the object that is not chosen, to the last lesson which turns to the father as the principle of overcoming anxiety, through his object, not only finite. The Father of the name is a major conceptual leap. With this naming father, Jacques Lacan saves the father, and simply perpetuates both the old biblical refrain and the Freudian Oedipus. In 1969, Lacan spoke of the conjugal family as the final remainder of the fragmenting of social bonds. Thus psychoanalysts should themselves be able to do without their attachment to the coordinates of the traditional family that Lacan stigmatised since 1967.
