ABSTRACT
Gorgias, a disciple of Empedocles de Agrigento, has been considered to be hewho introduced rhetoric to Athens. Jacques Lacan’s initial interest in Indian rhetoric is in line with his later studies on Chinese writing. For Sigmund Freud—contrary to Lacan’s view—interpretation ends when the analysand has a very specific experience. As Freud himself points out when clinically specifying his way of interpreting: The interpretation of a dream is divided into two stages: the stage in which it is translated and the stage where it is judged or evaluated is determined. Freud seems to reserve the expression “interpretation” to refer to the resignification of specific points, as can often be seen with respect to dreams, minor slips of memory, lapses, and jokes. Identification is an inaccurate interpretation since it joins together two different processes: imaginary projection, as in Uberlistung, and symbolic introjection, as in Ubersetzung.
