ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a new concept of an interdisciplinary nature of "couple work", a psychoanalytical and socio-anthropological concept that demonstrates the couple's pluri-dimensionality, modes of connecting its diverse levels, its organization and its functioning, but also its dysfunctioning. It was with surprising clarity that the interdisciplinary concept of couple work is something that could help to interpret conjugal facts pertaining to each of the three realities - sexual-bodily, psychic and socio-cultural, each endowed with their own temporality - as well as understanding both their necessary interconnections and shortcomings. A conjugal group exists when a common, shared psychic construction occurs between the partners, a "conjugal psyche" that will function as such from then on and will, in particular, produce "conjugal compromise formations", themselves common and shared. It therefore results from work to synergize and conflictualize the parts of every individual psyche mobilized to construct this conjugal group.
