Unconscious Function

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“An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.”
—Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917)

“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)