廖朝陽2006-08-232018-05-292006-08-232018-05-292005-07-31http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/29381In recent years, translation, in the metaphoric sense of understanding (and accepting) alterity through some representational transport, has become a common reference point in critical discourse, usually used to accentuate the practice of cosmopolitan tolerance and respect for cultural difference. This paper begins with a questioning of this trend, proposing that there is an implicit globalizing valuation of the cosmopolitan stance that has to be analyzed and critiqued through a return to the ethical dimension of translation. To establish the relevance of ethics, it invokes Derrida’s account of “relevant” translation, taking it perhaps beyond Derrida’s purpose, to advocate an ethical translation in terms of which translational judgement is both relativized and given constraint by a sense of direction and terminality. Walter Benjamin’s insistence on the “linguistic being” of all objects and Homi Bhabha’s spatializing conceptualization of multilingual competence are discussed. An ethics of the real is then proposed, which, following Lacan’s reading of Freud’s “Project for a Scientific Psychology” in his seventh Seminar, should remind us that to signify is not only a right but a drive, a call to return to the silenced in the traumatic emergence of subjectivity subjectivity from matter.application/pdf232078 bytesapplication/pdfzh-TW國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所TranslatabilityCultural TranslationCultural DifferenceEthicsThe Realreporthttp://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/29381/1/932411H002008BG.pdf