ABSTRACT
Pain, although subject to different interpretations and subjectications, is one of the most basic human experiences. But to feel pain is not only to perceive a set of physical responses to an injury. The experience of pain entails a subject, who through pain is transformed, transgured. Hence, pain, as a human experience, is differently sensed and understood by each individual, and within each culture. The language of pain is always a translation, because “pain involves a codied form of social behavior” (1). Therefore, the expression of pain is unique and inimitable in its form and articulation.
