Porte-la-honte et maillage des contenants généalogiques familiaux et communautaires en thérapie familiale

Abstract

The Carrier of Shame and the Mesh of Genealogical Family and Community Containers in Family Therapy. Clinical impasses led us to hear shame better. The logic of shame is intersubjective and trans-psychic. I distinguish three registers : to be ashamed, as a conscious affect, contaminating the group of belonging ; to incarnate shame, as a designation and to carry shame as an expression of unconscious transmission. With the function of «carrying shame», the symptom carrier is the depository heir, memory of the imprint of the unmentionable. Shame is analysed as an organizer of the trans-generational transmission of the negative. The relation to shame delimits, with forms of the glance, the outside and inside, genealogical family group and community containers ; it organizes the identity relational link with ascendants, descendants, the unborn. In family therapy, we are essentially concerned with pathologies of the genealogical container. The work of genealogical meshing is an examination of the link and transmission. It participates in the deconstruction, narrative co-construction of the genealogical family picture.