Jul 19, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Juliet Faithfull is a tri-lingual psychotherapist who authored the book, "Liar's Dice." Learn more at…
Juliet FaithfullGuest
Nate HaberHost
Well, you know, I wrote my novel mainly in English, but there were parts that just came out in Portuguese, and especially dialogue.
Some of the characters, many are Brazilian, and, you know, the kind of jokes people make, the kind of back and forth.
So there's a translation that has to happen in a writer, such as me, who has chosen to write in English.
That that I have to somehow bring that not just the world of Brazil and the world of a 13 year old child, which is my main narrator, but also the kind of language, the teasing, the vibe in a way of Rio in the 1970s to the USA.
everything translates perfectly right right certain things based on culture and and the way we say things the way you say things in brazil or in portuguese
I even think memory is like, I think it's encoded in different parts of our brain in different languages, you know, that sometimes I don't remember something.
And then I go to a country that where the foliage and the smells remind me of Brazil.
So do we experience trauma differently based upon the languages that we, that we use?
I think trauma is in the body no matter what, no matter what language the trauma happens in, like we hold it, but we might have different access to it.
Because if you're, you know, in Brazil, say if I'm in Brazil, I might get triggered and have more memories than if I'm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where everything is quite different from how I grew up.
Yeah, I'm wondering if, especially across different languages, if trauma is remembered differently or processed differently.
It's a very philosophically deep question that requires a lot of analysis, clearly.
I mean, I guess, you know, if you don't remember a time and that time happened in that language, you know, it's a little bit sealed off from you.
Well, you know, I wrote my novel mainly in English, but there were parts that just came out in Portuguese, and especially dialogue.
Some of the characters, many are Brazilian, and, you know, the kind of jokes people make, the kind of back and forth.
So there's a translation that has to happen in a writer, such as me, who has chosen to write in English.
That that I have to somehow bring that not just the world of Brazil and the world of a 13 year old child, which is my main narrator, but also the kind of language, the teasing, the vibe in a way of Rio in the 1970s to the USA.
everything translates perfectly right right certain things based on culture and and the way we say things the way you say things in brazil or in portuguese
I even think memory is like, I think it's encoded in different parts of our brain in different languages, you know, that sometimes I don't remember something.
And then I go to a country that where the foliage and the smells remind me of Brazil.
So do we experience trauma differently based upon the languages that we, that we use?
I think trauma is in the body no matter what, no matter what language the trauma happens in, like we hold it, but we might have different access to it.
Because if you're, you know, in Brazil, say if I'm in Brazil, I might get triggered and have more memories than if I'm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where everything is quite different from how I grew up.
Yeah, I'm wondering if, especially across different languages, if trauma is remembered differently or processed differently.
It's a very philosophically deep question that requires a lot of analysis, clearly.
I mean, I guess, you know, if you don't remember a time and that time happened in that language, you know, it's a little bit sealed off from you.
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