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ouvrir la chaine signifiante sans prejuger de ce qui pourra advenir

English translation: "open the signifying chain without prejudging what might occur"

14:35 Sep 16, 2000
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical
French term or phrase: ouvrir la chaine signifiante sans prejuger de ce qui pourra advenir
adolescent psychotherapy (again...): this describes the role of the psychoanalyst.
nancy gemmell
English translation:"open the signifying chain without prejudging what might occur"
Explanation:
This "signifying chain" seems to be also part of Lacan's concepts.

"The elements in the unconscious--wishes, desires, images--all form signifiers (and they're usually expressed in verbal terms), and these signifiers form a "signifying chain"--one signifier has meaning only because it is not some other signifier. For Lacan, there are no signifieds; there is nothing that a signifier ultimately refers to"
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/lacan.html

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Louise Atfield
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Encore une fois merci, ainsi qu'aux autres repondants
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naOpen the significant chain without prejudging its outcome.
Luis Luis
na"open the signifying chain without prejudging what might occur"
Louise Atfield
nabelow
Lia Fail (X)


  

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Open the significant chain without prejudging its outcome.


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Luis Luis

Luis Luis
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"open the signifying chain without prejudging what might occur"


Explanation:
This "signifying chain" seems to be also part of Lacan's concepts.

"The elements in the unconscious--wishes, desires, images--all form signifiers (and they're usually expressed in verbal terms), and these signifiers form a "signifying chain"--one signifier has meaning only because it is not some other signifier. For Lacan, there are no signifieds; there is nothing that a signifier ultimately refers to"
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/lacan.html

You may want to look further at the material on this site, which might be very helpful for your translation...

Louise Atfield
PRO pts in pair: 300
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Encore une fois merci, ainsi qu'aux autres repondants

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Explanation:
1. to open/opening a can of worms

2. to start/starting a chain reaction

3. to initiate/initiating a series/succession of 'events' (of some kind, e.g. feelings, senasations) without being aware/conscious of the possible result/outcome

4. to unleash/unleashing a chain reaction/of 'events'

5. to put/putting into operation OR cause/causing a series/succession of 'events',without being aware/conscious of the possible result/outcome


No 1 is very informal; No 2 & 4 are succinct ways of expressing the entire idea; No.3& 5 are more literal.

Notice that the 'events' should be substituted with a word appropriate to your context.

Lia Fail (X)
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 60

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