祖先在我们身上，我们也将在子孙身上，家族不灭，我们不死。 ​荣格将家族遗传归之为家族潜意识的作用- Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. 

比如遗传性家族诅咒。西方公认的例子有：马龙白兰度家族，肯尼迪家族，沙皇家族等。史书上更是比比皆是，如司马家族，北齐高氏等，皆无解。西方称为“源罪“，古人曰“慎始“。The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides （Ancestral sin, generational sin, or ancestral fault）running through the generations - a hereditary curse, plaguing the family for generations with a vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Carl Jung

进而也可以引入另一个遗传对立面，有着无数相应的史学论证 - a hereditary bless/merit/advantage。