Transmission et construction de l’identité dans le champ du développement du bébé. Plaidoyer pour une modélisation d’une transmission ascendante, du bébé vers les adultes

Abstract

After considering the concepts of intergenerational and transgenerational psychic transmission under the theory of the deferred action (S. Freud) – intergenerational transmission is playing in both directions between contemporary generations – the author then discusses the currently available models of the transmission process (successively in the light of the works of W.-R. Bion, J. Bowlby and D.-N. Stern), before concluding by presenting the system of early interactions between babies and their caregivers as a narrative space that specifically contributes, in both directions, to the construction of the identity of the child. In this latter perspective, the concept of preverbal and reciprocal narrativity is at the heart of the two-ways transmission process between adults and children which allows it to forge an individual identity rooted in the history of its two filiations (maternal and paternal ones).