A scholarly study of how psychic life is shaped across generations and in the earliest bonds between infant and caregiver. Drawing on infant analysis and psychoanalytic theory, it considers how the emerging self is formed through early relationships, unconscious transmission, and family histories that precede the child’s own experience. The work focuses on the psychological dimensions of intergenerational continuity, exploring how anxieties, identifications, and relational patterns may be carried forward while also being transformed in the clinical encounter. Intended for readers interested in psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and early childhood, it offers a theoretical framework for understanding subject formation not as an isolated process, but as one deeply embedded in lineage, memory, and the earliest exchanges of care.

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