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Based on the works of R. Kaës and a psychoanalytic family therapy, this paper reveals how denial pacts operate inside the family. This clinical approach shows a “clan” type modality that induces atemporality and incest against an incestual background. Incest occurs in the family when the brotherhood pact and the contract with the father do not play their roles of structuring unconscious alliances (Kaës 2008 and 2009). However, the modes of the links inside the family are elaborated and transformed during the therapeutic process. The transfero-countertransferential and intertransferential dynamics make the unconscious psychical transmission turn into a rich and flexible mythopoiesis that can restore temporality.