This dissertation explores how eating disorders are transmitted between mothers and daughters, not only through overt modeling of dieting or body shame, but also through silence, secrecy, and unspoken family dynamics that fracture emotional communication and containment. Drawing on in-depth interviews with eight mother–daughter pairs, the Listening Guide methodology identified recurring contrapuntal tensions of control and longing, compliance and rebellion, silence and expression, containment and abandonment, identification and individuation, and fear and hope. Within these dyads, analyses revealed that the eating disorder functioned as both symptom and language, expressing what Bion (1962) termed attacks on linking – disruptions in the capacity to think, feel, and connect – and revealing how unprocessed and undigested experiences can circulate (or regenerate) within families. Departing from traditions of mother blame, this study attends instead to the intersubjective field in which both mother and daughter are embedded and mutually influenced by sociocultural, political, and familial intrusions. The eating disorder thus emerges as a shared attempt at containment when the relational environment cannot metabolize affective intensity. While these dynamics reveal the psychic weight of inheritance, they also illuminate the potential for transformation: daughters described recovery as reshaping their relationships with their mothers, and mothers reflected on how their daughters’ struggles invited them to revisit and digest their own histories with body and food. Thus, creating a new way of being together and potentially protecting the next generation from inheritance. This dissertation contributes to clinical practice by building on Bianchini’s (2025) concept of the psychic stomach, highlighting the importance of embodied countertransference as a tool for therapeutic containment; and to clinical theory by situating eating disorders within intergenerational, feminist, and psychoanalytic frameworks.