No caminhar sobre o fio da navalha,

English translation: Walking on a razor's edge, walk a thin line

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Portuguese term or phrase:	No caminhar sobre o fio da navalha,
English translation:	Walking on a razor's edge, walk a thin line
Entered by:	Floriana Leary

23:59 Mar 3, 2009

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Psychology / psychoanalysis

Portuguese term or phrase: No caminhar sobre o fio da navalha,

No caminhar sobre o fio da navalha, entre a fragmentação e a estabilização psíquica e, consequentemente, entre a fragmentação e a estabilização do esquema corporal, os gestos e os movimentos das pessoas psicóticas nos revelam que, na maior parte das vezes, a funcionabilidade do aparelho locomotor está preservado, porém ao buscarmos os significados dos gestos e dos movimentos, na maior parte das vezes, encontramos o buraco da existência.

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Walking on a razor's edge

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WALKING ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE - 1 definition - A term used to describe someone who is in a very dangerous situation. (ie If you were walking on a ...
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Walking on Razor's edge, so hard for me to find my way home. How could it have come to this? So hard to pick the right from the wrong. ...
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This is like walking on the Razor's Edge. On one side there is a trap: the impossibility of understanding cognitive phenomena if we assume a world of ...
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Yes, and that's the one that came to my head first, and then I thought of this one, and felt this one had more of a direct translation meaning. I'm glad I could help, have a fantastic day!

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Floriana Leary
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Local time: 01:33

Grading comment

Great suggestion. Thanks. I also remembered "walk a thin line" with the same meaning.
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Walking on a razor's edge

Floriana Leary

By walking on the thin edge, between...

Lidia Saragaço

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By walking on the thin edge, between...

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Another suggestion, that may work well, even though it is not a literal translation.

Lidia Saragaço
Portugal
Local time: 06:33
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Portuguese

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Walking on a razor's edge

Floriana Leary
United States
Local time: 01:33
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Great suggestion. Thanks. I also remembered "walk a thin line" with the same meaning.

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