The article is devoted to the topic which relevance is determined by the socio-cultural revolution that from the beginning of the 20th century catchеd the family - the most fundamentalinstitution of society as such and the only social institution of human reproduction. The author turns to the study of the phenomenon of sexuality in the Foucault’s project of “History of Sexuality” in those aspects that are associated with the reception of Freud’s legacy by Foucault’s philosophical thinking, favorably differing from the “return to Freud”, programs formulated by J. Lacan and J. Laplanche. The “genealogical method” of Foucault gave the historical study of sexuality a philosophically grounded character. Responding to Foucault’s appeal to translate sexuality into discourse, the author of the article considers discourse and discursive practices as an instrument of historical research, shows the complexity of the study of sexuality, based on the urgency of the present, is determined by the ordinary non-intelligible a