ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to pursue further the “task of translation” between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, confident that such a dialogical undertaking would help us understand better the categories of each discipline when seen under the conceptual light of the other. A point of departure for this interdisciplinary dialogue is the topography of the psyche (in Freud and Lacan) compared to that of the consciousness (in Husserl and Marion). Some of the questions to be examined are: Could the Freudian tripartition of the psyche be understood in terms of the three levels of temporality in the life of the consciousness? Is there a homology between the id and the flesh? Finally, I maintain that introducing to this dialogue between psychoanalysis and phenomenology a “religious” (or, better yet, liturgical) understanding of the concepts of temporality and the flesh will open up each discipline to each other, making a significant contribution to their theoretical rapprochement.
