Before Babel

Reflections on Reading and Translating Freud

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ID9233154
AuthorsEran J Rolnik (Training and Supervising Analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a faculty member of the Max Eitingon Institute for Psychoanalysis, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Tel-Aviv University., corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume84
Issue2
Pages307-330
Publication date2015-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/psaq.12001
PMID25876535
OpenAlexW2144877207
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

The author offers some thoughts on reading and teaching Freud, on translating Freud, on translation in general, and on a possible kinship between translation and the psychoanalytic process. His reading of Freud's works, and the years he spent translating them into Hebrew and editing Hebrew editions of his writings, have made a deep and salient impression on his personal psychoanalytic palimpsest. The author began this labor prior to his psychoanalytic training and has no doubt that, to this day, the experience greatly shapes not only his attitude toward Freud himself, but also the nature of how he listens to patients and the way he thinks and writes about psychoanalysis

Freudian theory · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reading (process) · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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