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This article concerns the clinical approach to the extreme, there where thought seeks to make sense, but where the traumatic content of the event leads simultaneously to a moving away for preservation. Patients whose grandparents or parents have lived during a war display, more often than it would seem, symptoms which must be deciphered by “unexpected” means. They invite us to take the measure of the intergenerational transmission of trauma, of what we call here “traumatic radiation.” Two clinical vignettes, one from an article written by Dori Laub, another from our own clinical work, give some indications about how to adapt our therapeutic practice to this clinical approach.