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Through this article, the author aims to show how people talking about themselves in a group on the topic of parentality specifically confront the complex issues of transgenerational transmission. Becoming a parent’ is the start, in its very process, of a shift from a logic of inheritance to a logic of transmission. The author argues here on the basis of clinical material collected within life-narrative groups discussing the subject of parentality. Participating in life-narrative groups can help to represent one’s own subjective position within generations. The specific theme of parentality, as the securing of connections between participants, accentuates the transgenerational dialectic, as Freud (1914) invited us to conceive of it: being both an end in ourselves and the product of a history that precedes us.