The following article refers to a study on how mental transmission occurs between generations and its importance in the psychical constitution. It also aims to explain what are intergenerational and transgenerational transmissions. To answer these questions, there was a literature search on the psychic transmission, the psychoanalytical view, especially from the lacanian theory and Saussure's concepts. It will be from a particular symbolic order constituted by the language that precedes the subject, appointed by Lacan as the Other, that the psychic transmission between generations will obtain univocal character, always bearing in mind the fundamental importance of repression and its effects and the return of the repressed in other generations. The transmission is a necessary and concomitant psychic constitution of the subject through language, through the signifiers that will determine a symbolic order for the one to be born, through the different discourses that are transmitted beyond generations by the parents of this new being. This symbolic order will continue to be present in this new subject for the remainder of its existence. This article seeks to shed new light on the issue of intergenerational psychic transmission, which differentiates it from contemporary psychoanalytic approaches as a lacanian reading. Two examples will be given: one on how the transmission appears in the culture, another, on the subjectivity of the subject through art.
Psychic transmission between generations; Symbolic interactionism; Constitution of the subect; Psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis