BONDING AND TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION: GENERATIONAL TELESCOPING, TRAUMA AND THE EFFORT TO BUILD A WORLD OF ONE'S OWN

Abstract

This article is the result of a research that relates the importance of addressing the processes of psychic transmission in the care of families based on the framework of Bonding Psychoanalysis. Specifically, we will address the relationship between transgenerational transmission and trauma from the theoretical-clinical conception of generational telescoping. The construction of this research was based on the intertwining between the issues that emerged from the clinical care of a family that sought therapy due to symptoms presented by their adolescent daughter. During the psychotherapeutic process, it became evident that many of the difficulties faced by the adolescent in her process of subjectivation were related to the traumatic experiences faced by a lineage of women composed of her, her mother and her maternal grandmother. Family care allowed the traumatic experiences hidden between generations to be transformed into narratives, expanding the conditions for individuation and the construction of one's own world.