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Intergenerational trauma in PSL
In Psychosystemology, inheritance is not a sentence. It is a relational pattern that still asks for reading, a place and a name.
Direct answer
Intergenerational trauma, also called transgenerational trauma, describes marks that cross families, bonds and systems. PSL reads this phenomenon as a gesture suspended in the field: something that did not find sufficient expression in one generation and continues to organize responses in another.
This reading does not turn a person into the bearer of a label. It asks which gesture was left without a place and how that gesture shows up today in decisions, symptoms, bonds and repetitions.
How the repetition shows up
Invisible loyalties
A person repeats positions, silences or losses as if they needed to belong to a story that came before them.
A body on alert
The system reacts before it understands: fear, defense, contraction or guilt arise with no proportional cause in the present.
Repeated relationships
Romantic, family or professional choices take on old shapes, even when the person tries to do things differently.
Naming
The work begins when the repetition stops being destiny and comes to be read as a relational field seeking reorganization.
What crosses generations does not have to become an identity. It can become a language for restoring the bond with one's own history.