Many migrant families, mainly single-parent Moroccan families, consult at the children's hospital in Brussels in the child psychiatry department of the HUDERF (Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital) for behavioral disorders, disorders of the attention, psychosomatic problems. These families come without the father who has often "disappeared" and remains "absent-present", or absent. The purpose of these interviews is to help the child to represent this father, by analogical language, and by means of floating objects, to situate himself in relation to his dual membership; this work is done in the presence of mother and siblings, valuable partners. It is interesting to discover that real and imaginary representations differ; these allow the symbolization of the father's place, the elaboration of a possible mourning, the discovery of ambivalence, the construction of new links in a more secure context. © Presses Universitaires de France. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

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