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For Plato, ‘signifiant’ and ‘signifie’ are separable and only ‘signifie’ is universal, identical, immutable and independent. Classic French translation philosopher Berman criticizes Plato’s view on language of this kind which ranks the relationship between signifiant and signifie in ontological order. Plato’s ‘meaning-centered theory of translation’ inherently puts an original text in ontologically superior position to translated works by granting the original text such as a literary work an absolute status and authority similar to ‘eidos.’ ‘Meaning-centered translation’ borders Plato’s representative relationship, which means that ontological status of ‘B’ is decided by the degree of closeness to upper-level ‘A.’ Substituting this in translation, upper-level ‘A’ becomes ‘original text’ while lower level ‘B’ becomes ‘translated work’, and translated work ‘B’s status is decided on how close ‘B’ is to original ‘A’ or how closely ‘B’ represents or reproduces the original ‘A’. Therefore, ‘B=translated work’ becomes subordinate, secondary, derivative, inferior and marginal to ‘A=original text.’ The purpose of this study is to reflect on translation ethics from non-representative perspective of Deleuze who criticized Plato’s representative theory of translation and apply this to ‘Kitchen’ literature translation.