pemThe Couple A pluridisciplinary storyem asks two questions and endeavours to answer them What is the couple And what story are we talking about ppric Smadja presents his view of the couple as a composite, sexual-bodily, socio-cultural and psychic living reality in diverse and variable interrelationships, unfolding within a complex temporality. Ambivalently invested in by each partner, the couple is structurally and dynamically as conflictual as it is critical. ppSmadja sees the couple as situated at the intersection of several histories socio-cultural epistemological the construction of this object of knowledge and of psychoanalytic treatment natural that of the cycle of conjugal life marked out by critical and mutative stages and therapeutic that of the suffering couple that will consult a specialist and undergo psychoanalytic therapy. emThe Couple A pluridisciplinary storyem follows the narrative division of these histories following a pluri- and interdisciplinary investigation com