ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytic space is created and developed by various aspects of textuality as much as it is created and developed by the encounter between two subjects in the clinic. At the heart of both psychoanalysis and writing are self-reflection and the exploration of the unconscious. Within this space, the subject recreates the subject’s life narrative, self, and singular voice. Psychoanalytic writing is explicitly situated between referential writing, which remains loyal to the actual events that took place, and fiction. A crucial concept in the examination of the analysand’s writing is the concept of voice. As pointed out by Ogden, psychoanalytic literature is profoundly and consistently devoted to the development of the self, in the sense of the psychic potential of the subject. Thinking about psychoanalysis and translation evokes the image of psychoanalysis as a quest for language. Psychoanalysis seeks psychic cure through the process of revealing the unconscious.
