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The author invites Maurice Godelier, an anthropologist of social relationships that fabricate kinship systems based on parentage and relationships between sexes, to put light on the destinies of the couple and the family whose therapists meet in their practice. At the same time, he questions the place of the couple as the base of the family, analyzes in this respect the role of the imaginary in the construction of social representations. Then, he tries to understand how politics and religious values assure the masculine domination in the constitution of the couple and the family. The example of current reproduction techniques will illustrate the idea that sexuality, by nature asocial, is put at the service of the reproduction of social relations. The contemporary family transformations that therapists face are inseparable from the evolution of couples and are constantly reproducing new norms. For the author, anthropology offers a reading grid on the logic of the social relationship, in complementarity of the springs of the unconscious as well individual, as intersubjective and group.