Anthology of recent cuttingedge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.In contrast to the way inheritance is understood in scientific discourse and culture more broadly inheritance in psychoanalysis is a paradox. Although its impossible strictly speaking for the unconscious to be inherited this volume demonstrates how the concept of inheritance can occasion a rich reassessment and reinvention of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The collection enacts a critical traversal of inheritance for psychoanalysis from the most basic assumptions of natural or biological inheritance such as innateness heredity evolution and ontogenesis to analysis of the ways cultural traditions can be challenged and transformed and finally to the reinvention of psychoanalytic practice in which the ethics of inheritance is fully realized as the individuals responsibility to transform the social bond.