The language of movies is powerful to facilitate formative processes in clinical psychoanalysis, because it metaphorizes human situations and contexts, including incestuous family relationships (IFR). The study aimed to discuss a filmic case focused on IFR, staged by a parental couple and a daughter. Precious: based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, American film directed and produced by Lee Daniels in 2009, was qualitatively analyzed through theories and clinical discussions about family psychodynamics. The family of Precious is understood an integrated manner, with mutual influences between its different members, according to they relate to the limits and potentialities of psychosexual development imposed by each. All involved in IFR must address the task of drawing up family secrets, unconscious and transgenerationally transmitted. Precious illustrates the significance of family functions for the formation of subjectivities and portrays contemporary challenges that confront the clinician's work.
Sexual abuse; mass media; psychic transmission between generations