[marron]Abstract[/marron]

The works of Louise Bourgeois originate in her creation of an amorous substitution, prompted by the betrayal of the love she felt for her father. In this paper we propose to show how the artist, through her sculptures, provides herself with a father figure based on of her need for one, but also her own, needs. Thus, with her work, her symptom, she finds replacement, and in so doing she finds how to knot that which was not well knotted to the name father. And her endeavor was successful, for she made a name (nom) for herself, not a man (homme) as her father would have wanted: Louise Bourgeois