Transference and translation / Ãœbertragung und Ãœberstellung
am 03.01.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
The six members of Zoes Ark convicted in Chad and returned to France to serve their sentences cause legal problems since they presumably cant do forced labour in France.
They also cause language problems, since the term transfèrement (according to Bridges FR - EN law dictionary transfer of prisoners) seems unfamiliar to some journalists. Hence detailed discussions of the terms in Langue sauce piquante and Les zakouski du jeudi.
The subject is discussed by Arthur Goldhammer, who also mentions German:
In German transference is die Überträgung, which is indeed transfer in the ordinary sense, so maybe this is another of those instances where Strachey betrayed Freud by overrefining his language. This discussion may be of more interest to students of translation than of politics, and of course translation (Übersetzung, traduction) is but another sense of transfer.
Actually, the OED doesnt mention Strachey in this connection. It gives two or three meanings of transference, one quite early. The Freudian one originates in 1911 (after a use of transfer in 1910).
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXII. 434 The reason why the physician is so often the object toward which the transference is made is that the Å’dipus complex is almost invariably present in the patient. 1916 C. E. Long tr. Jungs Analyt. Psychol. 245 What has …
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