TRADUCCIÓN Y MELANCOLÍA

Abstract

Concerning the link that may subsist between the theory of translation and the theory of the subject (the concept of melancholy offers here a provisional help), in this paper I propose a brief discussion of some difficulties and paradoxes of the relation between original and translation and of the problematic equation of translation and language. These considerations suggest, from the point of view of translation, the relevance of a logic of repetition, and, from the point of view of the subject, the necessary attention towards the event of an effacement of the self in the act of writing, which both may be keys to the analysis of the link previously mentioned