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The concept of filiation, linked with the puerperium, can be useful in clinical psychopathology. The convergence of silence, gaps in the lineage, and the effect of secrecy maintain a transgenerational death dynamic. More than a problem of descent (which is one of its consequences), female infertility attests to processes of detachment from ascendance, with its problems of conception and transmission. We propose the hypothesis of a primal “ancestralization bond” before any process of fertility or pregnancy. This makes sense only within the dialogical dynamic of the clinical situation. This dynamic promotes the reinscription of the symptom of infertility in the mythical and sacred space of the patient’s words.