"New symptoms" and paternal function decline: a critical examination of the question. From the Lacanian perspective, it explores the relationship between the decline of the paternal function and the "new symptoms". It criticizes the assimilation between paternal function decline and the decline of the Name-of-the-Father. It examines the term "new symptoms", showing its contradictory character. It concludes that the decline of social law is compatible with the inscription of the Name-of-the-Father, and that such a decline engendered new pathologies, but these are not assimilable to symptoms.
New symptoms; Name-of-the-Father; Law; Other