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Dr Matthias von der Tann,
I am grateful for the close reading done on the case of Yune. There are too many points to attempt to address them all, and I will only take up a few. As the editor of the AAW section there is always a balance that must be struck between what can be discussed within a limited space and how the analytic material is presented. The hope is always to have genuine, accessible clinical material presented with very little theory put forth on the part of the presenter along with the clinical material. Often the analyst wishes to explain what they were intending to do or why. But if the case material and discussions stimulate the kind of response this letter describes, I feel we have done our task.
In the case of Yune, we had some very specific issues that needed to be examined and discussed. The material was from a Korean analyst, with a Korean patient. The language of the analysis was Korean. I and the discussants, maybe because we were too close to the material, thought this was clear to any reader. The language of the analysis is of course very important. Doing analysis in one's original spoken language must, for both analyst and patient, be considered carefully, with nuances of language often being missed.
In this case that was in part the task of the translation of this material into English. This went through multiple iterations and took well over a year. Discussions about meanings in translations, the complications of nuance, the context that altered the meanings, etc., even the gender implications of certain words and actions, were all discussed with the analyst, my editorial readers and an outside consultant who knew the case and the analyst very well. This was an arduous task, which we hope paid off in terms of the clarity of the case material. Interactions with her father, analyst, husband, and her work all were subject to our questions and discussions with Dr Rho. The translation was not, nor ever is in the IJP, done via a computer program