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Freud introduced the question of translation as a psychic act in his earliest writings, letters and manuscripts sent to Fliess and subsequently returned to it in 1915 in “The unconscious”. This notion of transition, crossing, transposition, transcription between agencies, between different temporalities of psychic life, in fact mobilizes a topographical, dynamic and economic reflection, insofar as it is an essential marker of the transition from the unconscious to the conscious, from the latent to the manifest, and in this sense it is actively involved in the interpretation and process of analysis. Reflecting on the parallels and differences between these specifically analytical aspects and those that are active in the work or rather the translator’s “task”, according to W. Benjamin and other authors, can help us to think about the clinical issues at stake in the light of the hazards and uncertainties of any translation. These are due to the variability and subjectivity necessarily involved in the singular encounter between the two psychic universes that are present in an unsymmetrical way in every analysis. I will try to illustrate this through a clinical fragment.