Pierre Ramaut
Secret, Silence, and the Rupture of Psychic Temporality
“In 2019, a new tool called “Commemoria” was born in the field of transgenerational analysis, at the initiative of Pierre Ramaut, intended for practitioners, but also for people wishing to individually explore, transmit and share their family history independently. Commemoria is aimed at both practitioners and anyone wishing to investigate their personal and family history and/or complete their personal process of transgenerational analysis with a new reading grid. Designed to be accessible to all users concerned by transgenerational analysis and by the preservation and transmission of memory between generations, the Commemoria application allows, through the synchronization of its biographical and historical timelines, to easily order information, evoke memories, bring out emotions, explain the trajectory of an individual, shed light on that of a group and elucidate elements that have remained obscure from family and contextual documents. The pleasant, playful and liberating process proposed by Commemoria completes and finalizes the work based on other methods such as the genosociogram, art therapy, psychophany, hypnosis, waking dream, family constellations, shamanism, etc.
Conference: Secret, Silence, and the Rupture of Psychic Temporality
Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Frozen Past, Haunted Present, Suspended Future
“When words flow, life unfolds. When silence prevails, the past loops back.”
Our psyche naturally unfolds along a timeline: the past is told, the present is lived, the future is imagined.
But when speech fails—faced with trauma, a family secret, or unspoken shame—psychic time becomes disrupted. The past stops being past. It returns, insists, haunts.
Silence acts as a frozen loop in the unconscious. What could not be said is reenacted. What was not transmitted is carried. What was not symbolized is repeated—sometimes across generations.
Drawing from transgenerational psychoanalysis (Abraham & Török, Clavier), this conference explores how speech, symbolic acts, and rituals can reinsert personal and family history into a living sense of time.
A journey into the heart of psychic silence… to help each of us recover the ability to speak, to connect, and to transform.
Workshop : Silences in transgenerational psychoanalysis: between the absence of words and the presence of the unconscious
Friday, March 20, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
‘Silence in the tree is not absence, it is a message waiting to be translated. It calls less for a factual truth than for an act of symbolic recognition’.
In every family tree, there are muted voices, muted names, blanks that are not due to chance. These silences are not mere absences of words, but active presences, often unspeakable, always carriers of invisible legacies. They can signal trauma, shame, exile, a ban, or fidelity to an old pain.
This workshop offers a clinical, symbolic and sensitive exploration of these silent areas of transmission. Using two fundamental tools – the minute tree and the genosociogram – we will enter into a dialogue with the silences in our lineages, not to force them to be revealed, but to give them a place, a form and a function.
Workshop objectives :
- Understand the different faces of silence: protective, shameful, traumatic, ideological, etc.
- Détecter les zones d’ombre dans un arbre : dates manquantes, liens flous, figures effacées
- Identify the transgenerational manifestations of silence: symptoms, repetitions, pointless guilt
- Learn to question the tree without coercion, but with listening, hypothesis and symbolisation
- Reflect on how to transform silence into a point of support for rediscovered speech
Déroulement :
Après une brève mise en contexte théorique sur le rôle du silence dans la transmission psychique, chaque participant sera invité à travailler, seul ou en binôme, à partir :
- D’un arbre-minute ou d’un génosociogramme personnel,
- A set of targeted questions to explore the silences in the tree
- A period of shared feedback in a small group (optional) to take in echoes, resonances, resistance or discoveries.
An ethical and symbolic approach:
The aim of this workshop is not to reveal secrets, but to enable participants to:
- Learn to listen in a different way to what has not been said,
- To pose hypotheses without holding on to them,
- To breathe new life into lineages stifled by destructive or suffocating silences
Working on silence is a therapeutic act in its own right: it seeks neither to make the dead speak nor to denounce wrongdoing, but to free the living from what they carry without understanding. It is an invitation to pacify the invisible.
Target audience
This workshop is aimed at all professionals and practitioners in psychogenealogy, therapeutic or symbolic support, as well as anyone on a personal journey to understand their family history.
