[The unsaid in the family context and the paradox of desire]

Through the reading of family discourse, some reflexions on the non said, within the family context, and the paradox of desire are proposed. Interpretations are based on family discourse by means of clinical practice and, as regards social phenomena, on their symbolic representations. The non said--i.e. what is said by oneself to oneself, or soliloquy (monologue),--is unlikely to be reduced to a linear cause: This is a permanent construction, and destruction work. In its paradoxal movement, the non said both nullifies desire, and proclaims it.