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This paper investigates the violence of psychic transmission between and through generations in the framework of the conjugal approach leading up to adoption. It emphasizes the narcissistic stakes of the desire for a child and how sterility brings the couple face to face with the pain caused by the inability to sustain genealogical continuity. In this context, the future parent will enter a movement that combines intrapsychic, conjugal, and generational stakes, which will lead the couple to constructing a myth of the “savior-saved” child. Its nature will be illustrated by a clinical example, which will lead to a discussion about the function and fate of the myth in question.