[Becoming a father nowdays: difficulties and dilemmas]

A father is proud to occupy his function and he is assured to survive thanks to his child and through the perpetuation of his name. This constitutes the pleasant aspect of Fatherhood. But there is also an unpleasant aspect. A father must renounce to a part of himself and must permanently readapt to a changing place in his social role. There is a large quantity of different models of the function of fatherhood and the psychoanalytical litterature gives us a large amount of problems linked with the position of the father in the family. The father shows, for example, a tendency not to see clearly the difference between the role of a wife and the one played by his mother. We are now entering very strange times in which, for the first time in the history, nobody knows where we are going and the position of fatherhood constitutes a very crucial point of this situation.