Flusser with Freud: Translation, Subject and Culture

Abstract

In the following article, we present Sigmund Freud and Vilém Flusser not only as two intellectuals who shared some biographical similarities, but also as two important thinkers of converging propositions. Both critically analyzed the human unease towards individual and cultural differences mediated by the symbolic, and both, each one on his way, tried to propose ways of dealing with the question by emphasizing the creative powers of language and translation to overcome the boundaries of resistance, intolerance and miscommunication. Therefore, we intended here to discuss the contribution to the understanding of each one of these writers and their ideas by proposing a crossed reading of their works.