This article approaches tertiary processes and subjectivation through another pair of terms: translation and paradox. Translation demands that one carry out a particular kind tertiary function, becoming an agent of potential binding between meaning and signification; paradox pushes the Subject beyond Ego control and its dichotomic logic, not in order to deny it, but rather to move forward in an innovative way towards a third topology.

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