This article aims to discuss how psychic suffering occurs and is maintained by the pulsional dialectics between connection and disconnection. Through the methodology of "psychoanalysis beyond walls", we present a literary extract of North American author Carson McCullers to illustrate how a rigid translation can be a barrier to the retranslative process. Therefore, the psychic suffering generated by the disconnected elements of the unconscious would not have the chance to acquire a new translation. As a result and based on Laplanche's Theory of Generalized Seduction, we articulate that pulsional dynamics and disconnected contents invade the own field of translative synthesis, keeping psychic suffering constant.
Theory of Generalized Seduction; psychoanalysis and literature; suffering