Traducere, traduire son double, trans-férer sur un autre

Abstract

The author considers the problem of translation in relation to the Latin word traducere, transporting elsewhere, transferring on to another person. The countertransference, in these cases, is intensely activated. The author thus considers in greater depth this utilization of the word traducere by evoking the case of a patient who, from the very beginning of her treatment, aroused countertransference affects in the analyst resulting in experiences of intrusion, strange familiarity, and the double. The question of the double, its dimension of uncanniness, anxiety in connection with ego-disorganization and persecutory experience, is evoked. As the sessions unfold, the patient develops an idealizing transference, followed by feelings of disappointment that she links to an interpretation of the analyst. She then begins to recognize her ambivalence, a first attempt at psychic elaboration which permits the translation-transformation of her unconscious thoughts. Thus the transition from a narcissistic cathexis to a cathexis where homosexuality has a structuring effect is envisaged as a incipient translation opening towards otherness.