The human subject is born immersed in a family , he is the carrier of beliefs, rites, norms; as well as of secrets and hidden memories. These are legacies that go through the generations and find different and multiple ways of manifesting themselves. From Freud and his psychoanalytic theory onwards, human beings are called to think of themselves as heirs of a legacy that in each generation make a contribution to the transgenerational inheritance. A bibliographical research is carried out and the use of the cinematographic device is proposed, to contribute to the expansion of analytical listening and comprehension of the analysand within the framework of the session. The method used in the present work consists in the realization of a fragment of the film "A secret" that shows what is wanted to be demonstrated. That social violence and silenced or hidden situations are transmitted even without words and can be generators of traumas; for there is a dialectical link between the singularity of the individual and the cultural legacy in which the human subject arises. The Shoah, known as the Holocaust, constitutes the paradigm of supreme horror committed by human beings to other human beings. Its consequences offer the possibility to think about all the forms that social violence takes.
Keywords:
Legacies, Secrets, Transgenerational Transmission, Psychoanalysis, Holocaust, Social violence
Kupferminc, M. (2018). Legacies, pilgrims through time, hidden memories: a transgenerational look through cinema. Cuadernos Judaicos, (35), 106–133. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2018.52018
