1. As per the agreement between the IJP, the IPA and Wiley, copyright for this article is retained by the contributors. This article forms part of a collection from the keynote speakers at the 49th IPA Congress in Boston, USA: “Changing World: The shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today”, scheduled for 22–25 July 2015. Registration is available via the IPA website: www.ipa.org.uk/congress.
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1. As per the agreement between the IJP, the IPA and Wiley, copyright for this article is retained by the contributors. This article forms part of a collection from the keynote speakers at the 49th IPA Congress in Boston, USA: “Changing World: The shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today”, scheduled for 22–25 July 2015. Registration is available via the IPA website: www.ipa.org.uk/congress.
2. It is worth noting the significance of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze's contributions with regard to the theoretical consideration of this concept.
3. The paternal function does not come assembled all of a sudden, one becomes father. This is the slow, silent construction, reformulated at every turn, of the function that is put to the test at the same time as it is constructed and carried out. As such, today it proves more pertinent to talk of parentality, a term encompassing an area between two intersecting circles yielding common ground: the two circles would represent ‘becoming mother’ and ‘becoming father’.
4. Bion, Meltzer and Ferro amongst others.
5. In child, adolescent and adult analysis.