The purpose of this paper is to discuss in which way psychic transmission between generations is present in two movies of Pedro Almodóvar: Volver - To Return (2006) and All about my mother (1999). These movies have a intertextual support in highlighting stories of women who suffered in their marriages due to infidelity or behavior changes of their husbands. Both movies present the creation of lies that are told by the protagonists and that, somehow, go back to the stories of their mothers. Such trajectories are repeated unconsciously as a means not only to survive and to preserve psychic elements, but also to develop personal dramas, human tragedies and loving choices perceived as erroneous.
psychic transmission; family; marriage relationship; cinema; psychoanalysis