Ian Parker – Losing Psychoanalysis in Translation
 
THE LETTER 37 (Summer 2006) pages 72-92
 
Buiochas daoibh as ucht an cuireadh a thabhairt sibh dom. Tá brón orm nach bhfuil mé in ann an toirbhairt a dhéanamh as gaeilge
I have chosen this title ‘Losing psychoanalysis in translation’ partly to evoke the title of a film, Lost in Translation, which was ostensibly about outsiders (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson) coping with being in a place, Japan, which they could not decipher. Actually, the film was not really about being in Japan at all, except insofar as the narrative required that they were somewhere strange; that it was Japan did not figure save as a setting for some jokes about that culture. Instead, the lack of ‘translation’ in which the characters were lost was the impossible relation between the man and the woman.