ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will offer some postulations of Lacanian psychoanalysis: about man as chooser, about human choice as independent from outside forces, and the derivative: the human condition of orphanhood. About the value of orphanhood as a position of having no authority to tell us how to live, and the derived freedom of choice. And some practical implications: Raising children under the fantasy of hierarchy until it’s time to confess we cannot protect them from their freedom of choice – which is to say, from themselves.
