This article is concerned with psychic generational transmission. By means of a narrative psychoanalytic literature review focused on psychic transgenerationality, the transmission's different theoretical foundations and conceptual categories which emerged from psychoanalysis are presented. Occurring in non-verbal realms, psychic transmission is an unconscious process into which the alienated subject is embedded in a genealogical signifier chain. The writing of this article is based upon a methodology restricted to the following criteria: classical psychoanalytic texts, like those by Freud, Lacan, the Hungarian Abraham and Törok and those written by the psychoanalysts from the French School of Quatrième Groupe, which privileged generational psychic transmission theme. Based on psychic articles published in Brazilian scientific magazines, reflections and articulations linked with the thematic are made. Despite the fact that the different constructs, the trauma, the inter-subjective relationships and what is non-said, they constitute common-places in psychic transmission.
generational psychic transmission; transgenerational; intergenerational; subjectivity; psychoanalysis