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I would like to express my gratitude to the Toronto and Canadian Psychoanalytic Societies, in particular to Oren Gozlan and Allannah Furlong for their excellent work, and my special thanks to Gabriela Legorreta for providing valuable feedback during the preparation of my discussion. I am grateful for the invitation to discuss Viviane Chetrit-Vatine's paper1 and for the opportunity to reconnect with her. We first met before the pandemic at the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) in London as part of a panel on ethics organized by good friend Angela Sowa from San Francisco.
Beyond the fact that I first read this paper in French before reading it in English, I would like to say that, for me, the experience of reading is always an experience in translating. I want to start by citing Helen Vendler (2002/2011), an American literary critic, and professor emerita at Harvard University; she said:
My training in the sciences and mathematics, but particularly in organic chemistry, trained my mind to think in three-dimensional thinking. The architecture of a complex molecule goes right over to poetry; you enter a poem and look from different angles, from above, below or the sides. This training led me to see poetry as having an inner structure. … I don't know how people see it without it! It is for me the way in.
Here is my way in. I entered Viviane's article as a poem, translating it from various angles and making it my own.