This article discusses possible “novelties” in family ties for the psychism, based on what children-subjects can work through subjectively. The idea developed here is that the quality of the subjective working through of kinship ties in reference to the genogram is closely related to the way in which the subject subjectivates her instituted position and her unconscious place in the ties with the other. Based on a clinical situation, it is shown that the modes of tension between knowledge and representation of the ties are closely related to the subject’s Oedipal development.
Subjective working through; tie; knowledge; representation; genogram