Abstract

TESONE, Juan Eduardo. Transgenerational inscriptions on a child’s first name. J. psicanal. [online]. 2009, vol.42, n.76, pp. 137-157. ISSN 0103-5835.

In the choice of the child’s first name - first symbolic inscription of the human being - the parents desire appears as a watermark. At birth, the child is not a tabula rasa, he is not free from any inscription. A fore-text precedes him, which is also a parental inter-text where the first name becomes the written mark of the parental desire at stake. On this pre-text, the child will have to inscribe his own text, to appropriate his own name through the singularity of his marks. The writing of the first name remains the indelible mark of a symbolic familial story, a group palimpsest in which several generations often participate. It is sometimes necessary to look through this family book, to follow its movements, to note its characters, to recognize this manuscript of linked up letters, these links which have crossed generations, enabling the child to take possession of his own name. The first name should be taken up again as a cryptogram, the deciphering of which may prove useful to free the child from an anchoring point certainly necessary for his filiation, but which moored him to a symptom.

Keywords : Name; Desire; Parents; Child; Palimpsest; Inscription.

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