The influences of the inter-generational and trans-generational

Analysis of narrative and generational history of Balzac

Abstract

The study analyzes psychological development, through the concepts of transmitting, handing down and transgressing, re-reading the narrative of generational history in a clinical key. Transmitting inheritance, status and family assets, handing down values, myths, symbols, family rules is the task of previous generations. Learning and reworking - transgressing - the contents transmitted and handed down is that of the following generations in order to build their own identity to be made available for all the generations to come. Starting from the hypothesis that the family history takes place on a plot that each of the participants undertakes to narrate, to which each member tends to conform or to transgress, the family history of Balzac and the influences on his work. If a narrative is written in mythological history, individual behaviours, which could become unacceptable or dangerous to generational history, find a superstructural justification. The narration mitigates individual responsibilities as it refers to events, often supernatural, which are beyond the control and intentionality of individuals. Furthermore, it serves to locate and metabolize the unresolved issues of loss, separation, abandonment, individuation, nurturing, and deprivation.