Metagenealogy

Metagenealogy is a transgenerational analysis method developed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in collaboration with Marianne Costa, systematized in the book Metagenealogía (Siruela, 2011). The method combines: structural analysis of the family tree (four generations), Lacanian-Jungian psychoanalysis, Marseilles tarot symbolism, and systemic reading with Hellingerian affinities.

Its core is the four-generation metagenealogical tree: the client at the center, their parents, their grandparents, and their great-grandparents. Each member is analyzed with their corresponding tarot archetype and in relation to the clan's dynamics. The premise: understanding the entire tree allows identifying the unconscious script the client has inherited and, by knowing it, being able to rewrite it.

Differences with Hellinger: metagenealogy is more interpretative and narrative (it seeks meaning and a script); Hellinger is more phenomenological (it lets the field move, without interpreting). Differences with Schützenberger: Schützenberger is academic clinical; Jodorowsky is an artist-therapist with an explicit esoteric framework.

For the Constelando site, metagenealogy appears as an important complementary reference because much of the Hispanic audience arrives with a Jodorowskian framework. Acknowledging its existence allows building bridges toward the systemic method without invalidating the client's previous path.