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The hallucinations appear in some families as the expression of an individual and/or family-generational unsymbolized experience, referring to one or more traumatic experiences. Clinical work with the family of the subject who hallucinates can make it possible to restart what, of the associative chain of each, was frozen and encysted in the hallucinatory. From the clinical case of a hallucinating 14 years old patient, the author shows how what could not be symbolized appears in a member of the family, for himself and the other members. The pooling of the individual associative chains allows the groupal articulation of what had been untied (actively kept separate) in a movement of active parcelling out.