ABSTRACT
I have noticed time and again that patients associate to fragments of their parents’ history in response to my interpretations related to their narcissistic functioning in the transference.Thus we come into contact with aspects of the patient’s history that are intimately linked to the parents’history as (re)constructed. In other words, the patient’s intrapsychic struggle is reconstructed in the transference in a fragmentary way and related to partial aspects of their parents’ history. Should we regard the interweaving of both histories (the parents’ and the child’s) as just anecdotal or subsidiary? In different writings, I have been exploring answers to this question and I have arrived at the hypothesis that the narcissistic modality discovered in the transference had also been partially transmitted by the parents.
