Three Consequences of the Translatable and Untranslatable Condition of the Freudian Unconscious
Keywords:
unconscious, translation, interpretation, transference, subjectAbstract
The Freudian unconscious is characterized as both translatable and untranslatable. From this thesis, which comes mainly from The Interpretation of Dreams, we propose three consequences for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. First, in this paper we will develop each of these consequences and show how they relate to each other in the following order: the (un)translatability of the unconscious allows the emergence of the transference; the second is the signifier, as a literal element, is what is translated; and finally, the subject of the unconscious, at its foundation, fulfills a function of translation.
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