Introducing the cartel on the work of translation of Où il y a symptôme et sinthome by Jean Allouch

The work of translation of Allouch’s paper put us to work from transference: a transference to the working of Lacan’s concepts, a transference to Allouch’s writing, a transference beyond each of our own analyses and the theorising that has come from this, a theorising that also forms different transferences of work in the School. The work of translation in psychoanalysis is a work of suffering, a jouissance that is worked in writing, and is an effect of this writing, in the way that Lacan spoke about the subject coming into being en souffrance , through a suffering, a suspense, a gap that is opened by the weight of the letter. 1 In considering our work of translation from the function of a cartel, each of us made a commitment to speak about how the weight of this work affected us; that is, to speak about the particular impact of the transference of work for each of us.