Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Mar 2, 2007 13:10
17 yrs ago
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French term
en-deça
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
stage / scène / danse
"Il révise les danses qui ont fait trace en lui pour se débarrasser d’un encombrant savoir-faire et revenir à la virginité d’un hypothétique en-deça."
The client has suppied me only with a series of independant phrases. This refers to a dancer or choreographer who remains unknown to me.
I suspect "en deça" evokes psychiatry terminology or some such. Note that it is used as a noun here.
The client has suppied me only with a series of independant phrases. This refers to a dancer or choreographer who remains unknown to me.
I suspect "en deça" evokes psychiatry terminology or some such. Note that it is used as a noun here.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | (and return to an) imagined previous innocence. |
ormiston
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| 4 | naked psyche/id |
Carol Gullidge
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| 3 | beyond |
Odette Grille (X)
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| 2 | hypothetical primal state |
Najib Aloui
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Proposed translations
+1
2 hrs
Selected
(and return to an) imagined previous innocence.
a very tricky one, this !
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jim Tucker (X)
: yes, on second thought, this looks better than mine; en-deça is temporal rather than spatial or psychological. I liiiike.
3 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
51 mins
beyond
a state freed of past learning
3 hrs
Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
Related KudoZ points
:
80
naked psyche/id
the naked personality}
ie, the nether regions of the basic personality - what's left when everything that has been learnt/acquired has been stripped off and you're down to the basic you.
I think it is in fact a psychoanalytical term in this context - perhaps the sort of thing you're looking for:
Amazon.com: Profile For William Timothy Lukeman: Reviews
And once those primal forces are activated, the veneer of rational, civilized life is stripped away, leaving a naked psyche driven by overwhelming, ...
www.amazon.com/.../A3T46X7M3AUDAB?ie=UTF8&display=public&so... - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
Psychological Novel/Naked Eye
We will continue our discussion of the Wolf-Man case history and conclude our discussion of Freud as he relates to literature and the naked psyche. ...
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/press/EyeStuff/EYE.HTML - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision - Google Books Result
by Richard Bonaccorso - 1987
3 He means to uncover the character's naked psyche, but more important ... having uncovered it, to see through that naked psyche to reality itself. ...
ie, the nether regions of the basic personality - what's left when everything that has been learnt/acquired has been stripped off and you're down to the basic you.
I think it is in fact a psychoanalytical term in this context - perhaps the sort of thing you're looking for:
Amazon.com: Profile For William Timothy Lukeman: Reviews
And once those primal forces are activated, the veneer of rational, civilized life is stripped away, leaving a naked psyche driven by overwhelming, ...
www.amazon.com/.../A3T46X7M3AUDAB?ie=UTF8&display=public&so... - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
Psychological Novel/Naked Eye
We will continue our discussion of the Wolf-Man case history and conclude our discussion of Freud as he relates to literature and the naked psyche. ...
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/press/EyeStuff/EYE.HTML - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision - Google Books Result
by Richard Bonaccorso - 1987
3 He means to uncover the character's naked psyche, but more important ... having uncovered it, to see through that naked psyche to reality itself. ...
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
ormiston
: hello Carol ! your suggestion sounds compelling but I wonder if the emphasis is not on the 'clean slate' rather than a primal 'id' sort of thing...?
20 hrs
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3 hrs
hypothetical primal state
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