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Helen Lazaratou, Dimitris C. Anagnostopoulos
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2015.04.008
Community Mental Health Centre, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
From a viewpoint of Freudian metapsychology, this paper aims to carry out a bibliographic review on transgenerational transmission and to demonstrate—by the means of a clinical case—how pathology is created. The transgenerational object consists of a predecessor, a direct or indirect relation from previous generations who creates fantasies and provokes identifications in one or more members of the family. Usually he/she is the result of keeping a secret. Sigmund Freund does not refer directly to the transgenerational object. In many parts of his work, however, he uses transgenerational references to discuss the organization of the mental function, either on a personal or group basis. After S. Freud, various psychoanalysts have concerned themselves with transgenerational transmission under many different prisms, mainly in an attempt to explain the mechanisms which may lead to the expression of pathology. In transgenerational transmission, pathology is founded on the presence of a secret which in turn is connected to some form of unresolved grief. Secrets attempt to cover some narcissistic wound, a downgrading of the family image which they do not wish to transfer. With his/her symptoms, the child does not express his/her own conflicts but somebody else’s. By the means of a clinical case, we discussed the contribution of a family secret to the pathogenesis of a depressive episode during adolescence.
Freudian metapsychology, transgenerational transmission, family secrets, psychic pathology
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