A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The work of Jung and Freud is a laborious translation of non-literate awareness into literary terms, and like any translation distorts and omits. The main advantage in translation is the creative effort it fosters, as Ezra Pound spent his life in telling and illustrating. And culture that is engaged in translating itself from one radical mode such as the auditory, into another mode like the visual, is bound to be in a creative ferment, as was classical Greece or the Renaissance.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, (1962), p 72
Year: 1962
↪ Also at #2327, #3181
Compiled by William Kuhns
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