Psychic transmission between generations

Abstract

The recognition of the alienation of subjectivity, compromised by a defective generational psychic transmission, makes way to a fresh clinical look into the pathologies of Modernity. The mother-baby bond, as well as the family group, constitute a psychic cradle for the subject; it is constituted by a generational group weaving that could be called family archives. The transmission processes are sustained by identification mechanisms within an interplay of projections-introjections and incorporations, as well as by a reference to the parental superego. The generational psychic transmission that needs to be metabolized and undergo transformations takes place within the bounds of this intersubjective psychic space. The traumatic traces and narcissistic wounds which are transmited as remainders of the "negative", without modification and repetitively, in the various bonds of the family group space, are taken into consideration in family group practice. These traces and wounds are responsible for a number of symptoms as well as intra and intersubjective suffering.