O percurso de línguas da Psicanálise e seus avanços rumo ao oriente – Do alemão de Freud ao chinês de nossos dias

Abstract

This article aims to introduce questions regarding the recent entrance of psychoanalysis in the Chinese speaking world. It begins briefly presenting how psychoanalysis has had its development transformed and enriched by each culture and language of influence it has had a significant contact with. If Jacques Lacan’s “return to Freud”, based on Saussure’s and other linguists’ works, lead to prevail the comprehension of the unconscious as something attached to a function similar to that of the spoken language, his very considerations of idiographic languages such as Japanese and Chinese seem to reopen the discussions to the matter, considering mainly the written word and its relations to subjective reality.