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On the eve of the opening of the PIPOL Congress, Ombilic releases its last issue. Week after week, Ombilic relayed no less than a hundred contributions in all four languages of the EuroFederation and this,...

The Ombilic adventure is coming to an end. With our long-awaited Congress just a few days away, the Ombilic team has two wonderfully teaching issues reserved for you for this week. Patricia B.-Caroz's contribution, which...

"The family has its origins in the misunderstanding, the non-encounter, the deception, the sexual abuse or the crime ". This Jacques-Alain Miller’s quote – that I took from Pascale Simonet's beautiful text, published this week...

On 8th May 2021, a preparatory afternoon was held at the ACF-Belgium for the PIPOL 10 Congress, which is fast approaching. We had the pleasure of welcoming Virginie Leblanc and Carolina Koretzky, who each in...

This question unfolded in a kaleidoscopic way in the 19 numbers of Ombilic continues to feed with lively and varied sensations the elaborations for the congress PIPOL10. No more than three weeks and these gestating...

The PIPOL 10 Congress invites us to explore the theme ‘Desire for family and clinic of filiations’ and will address what science brings to it in terms of transformation for each one. Until then, in...

“What could be more normal than to inflict life? ?” is the title of Oriane Lassus’ comic strip. This comic strip, with its sometimes coarse text and deliberately crude drawings, raises questions about the desire,...

This sixteenth edition of OMBILIC offers, on the basis of non-sexual procreation made possible nowadays by science’s progress, a variation of insights regarding the desire for a child that is at stake. It is in...

To introduce this new edition of Ombilic, I returned to the science fiction film Gattaca. The story takes place in a world where the gene pool is what structures the whole society. In this world...

Interview with Céline Delbecq by Céline Aulit Céline Aulit — Your new play “A cheval sur le dos des oiseaux” (Riding on the backs of birds) addresses the question of parenthood and disability very delicately....