ABSTRACT
The space of the family and the analyst are asymmetric and discriminated, and stem from a context of signification, which goes beyond the family. The way in which the analyst is included foreshadows different clinical pictures and also indicates different modes of intervention. The author's working assumption is that the historical past that is of interest for psychoanalysis is the one that becomes present as it is actualized in the transference. Since there are different psychoanalytic perspectives on the nature of links, each one defines within its theoretical frame what pain is. The conflict between "genetics", meaning continuity with the past and with tradition, or genitality, by which the author mean discontinuity, novelty, and betrayal, constitutes the tension that this family would have had to work through if they would choose not to continue as they are.
