De l’acquisition à l’attribution du nom de famille,réflexions sur la transmission

Recent legal provisions, in force since January 2005, allow parents to declare a family name for their first child by choosing it among their own names. The term “Family name” has since replaced that of “patronymic” and a new registered form has been created, “the double name” associating both the father's and the mother's family name. This reform, being as important as complex and which began in 2002 and was implemented in 2005, particularly affects the method of transmission of the child's name and offers research new openings which will enable us to explore the representations of family in society today. This new institution, in that it favors the transmission of the name following the process of attribution, carries with it, until childbirth, an extra burden of personal commitment. It also highlights the permeability of the unconscious psychic issues and points out the singularity of the notion of transmission, which takes its color through a movement of appropriation singular to each individual within his or her history.