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This panel on translation was both very stimulating and rewarding; its theme addressed the main topic of the congress in a very striking manner. Translation has emerged as a bridge that enhances communication. While sometimes it makes use of divergences in a creative manner; it touches what is foreign, different and less conscious. Thus it sheds a new light on some psychoanalytic terms and leads to further insights.
In his opening remarks, the Chair, Jean-Michel Quinodoz (Geneva), Editor-in-Chief of the New Annuals of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, highlighted the aim of the Annuals to extend the readership of high quality psychoanalytic papers to a non-English-speaking audience in order to favour the communication between psychoanalysts of different cultures. He recalled that the first Annuals were published in Portuguese and Spanish in the early 1980s, then successively in French, Italian, German and Turkish in the 2000s, and a Russian Annual is expected next year. Quinodoz emphasized how fascinating this project is even though its implementation requires a lot of work and dedication on the part of colleagues who for most of the time translate on a voluntary basis.
Bella Habip (Istanbul), a member of the Turkish editorial board, spoke about the challenging and enriching situation of introducing psychoanalytical literature to a reader not familiar with the psychoanalytic culture. In such a context, she explained, the main difficulty is not loyalty to the original text, but rather conveying the concepts of an author to a reader who is not acquainted with the author's other writings. She then described the complex process of the choice and sometimes the creation of the right term in Turkish. She concluded that she experienced translation not merely as a challenge, but also as an experience of restoring her native language by enriching it with new concepts; acquiring a new psychoanalytic language when it does not exist …
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