This introduction presents two clinical contributions by Adrienne Katzow and Jonathan Rust that deepen psychoanalytic understandings of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Drawing on the concept of emotional inheritance, the papers explore how trauma, dissociated experiences, and other forms of unprocessed emotional material are carried across generations and manifest in clinical work. Moving beyond models centered exclusively on ghosts and secrecy, the author focuses on dissociation and on how our emotional inheritance remains both known and unremembered, familiar and yet forgotten. She highlights Katzow’s and Rust’s work in helping patients recover connections between past and present, and transform inherited emotional burdens into experiences that can be reflected upon, understood, and integrated.