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After evoking the child that we once were or that we think we were, the author resituates the question of trans- and intergenerational transmission in the light of the theory of après-coup (s.e. “deferred action”). He then envisages the different models currently available which account for a dynamic of ascending transmission, that is, from the baby towards the adults who take care of it (projective identifications of W. R. Bion, the theory of attachment, and the mechanisms of affective tuning).