Abstract

DARRAULT-HARRIS, Ivan. Of Mice and Men: The Inheritance of Trauma. Bio-Psycho-Semiotic Reflections.Translated byCinthya Estrada Bermúdez. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2021, n.45, pp.30-44.  Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 2594-0619.

The question of the inheritance of trauma will first be considered from experiments on mice, which show the objective existence of an epigenetic transmission of trauma, over two generations, without causing a modification of the genome. We will then examine the transfer of this hypothesis of transmission to the humans, from the work of the group MemoTV but especially on the basis of the analysis of a case of post-memory manifested by a teenager victim of the legacy of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. This leads to acting out behaviors (threat with gun, fugue) whose meaning will appear thanks to a psychotherapeutic intervention.

Keywords : trauma; inheritance; post-memory; intromission.