Abstract
This bibliographical review in freud-lacan works about contemporaneity-related issues verifies the diffusion of a general explanatory hypothesis: the paternal decline. As a consequence, a negative understanding of contemporaneity is produced, since it is approached mainly from the ideas of paternal deficit and disorder. The concept of epistemological obstacle by Bachelard, is rescued to construct a critical understanding that proposes that, among the psychoanalytical works that approach contemporaneity based on the paternal decline, the notion of Father would have become an epistemological obstacle, factor of immobility in the study. This criticism is necessary for the proposal of theoretical questions and solutions that may allow to overcome the mentioned problems and an opening beyond father-centrism.
Keywords:
psychoanalysis; contemporaneity; epistemology