Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
yo abdicado
English translation:
[the] abdicated self
Added to glossary by
Wendy Gosselin
Jul 24, 2019 15:50
4 yrs ago
Spanish term
Argentina
Multilingual Experts
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian) 
Works in: English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and 12 more.
yo abdicado
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Philosophy
This is from a description of what a writer saw in a mental hospital in Chile in the 70s. She is talking about the love relationships between patients:
“Con el yo abdicado, los alienados persiguen un sustituto de ellos mismos entre sus pares igualmente destronados.”
Neglected self? Outcasts?
Thanks
“Con el yo abdicado, los alienados persiguen un sustituto de ellos mismos entre sus pares igualmente destronados.”
Neglected self? Outcasts?
Thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | [the] abdicated self |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 4 +1 | self-abdicated |
Juan Piedrahita
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| 3 | ego-renunciation |
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
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References
| abdicar del yo |
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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Proposed translations
+3
7 hrs
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
Related KudoZ points
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16
Selected
[the] abdicated self
Entirely different from 'self-abdicated'. To begin with, it's a noun, and in the second place it's a term used in philosophy.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1527526623
Andrew Spano - 2019 - Philosophy
... half-truths, innuendos, and outright lies—all of which are in turn purveyed by the media apparatus as “facts” and **swallowed whole by the abdicated self** as “the ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0252016254
Bruce Leonard Grenberg, University of Illinois - 1989 - Literary Criticism
He becomes the fully dramatized living **embodiment of the “abdicated self,” **intimated in Taji's pointless drifting at the end of Mardi Redburn's virtual ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0231512511
2009 - Literary Criticism
... describes himself as skinned (“escorché”) (II, 6, 373)—is the product of an imaginary act in which **the abdicated self searches for its way** in a fiction of alterity.
Simone Weil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/
by AR Rozelle-Stone - 2018
Mar 10, 2018 - Analogous to aesthetic taste, spiritual discernment—God-given and graceful—**allows the abdicated self to read from a universal perspective** at ...
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/texmat.2017.7.../tex...
by G Pollock - 2017 - Related articles
displayed against the grain of **the abdicated self visually interrogating its object** in order to paint it. What we see here is the produced imaging of a young man of ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1527526623
Andrew Spano - 2019 - Philosophy
... half-truths, innuendos, and outright lies—all of which are in turn purveyed by the media apparatus as “facts” and **swallowed whole by the abdicated self** as “the ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0252016254
Bruce Leonard Grenberg, University of Illinois - 1989 - Literary Criticism
He becomes the fully dramatized living **embodiment of the “abdicated self,” **intimated in Taji's pointless drifting at the end of Mardi Redburn's virtual ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0231512511
2009 - Literary Criticism
... describes himself as skinned (“escorché”) (II, 6, 373)—is the product of an imaginary act in which **the abdicated self searches for its way** in a fiction of alterity.
Simone Weil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/
by AR Rozelle-Stone - 2018
Mar 10, 2018 - Analogous to aesthetic taste, spiritual discernment—God-given and graceful—**allows the abdicated self to read from a universal perspective** at ...
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/texmat.2017.7.../tex...
by G Pollock - 2017 - Related articles
displayed against the grain of **the abdicated self visually interrogating its object** in order to paint it. What we see here is the produced imaging of a young man of ...
Peer comment(s):
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P Forgas
1 hr
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Thank you!
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JohnMcDove
: Ah, yes, indeed. This is the better option. :-)
23 hrs
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Thank you, John!
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Juan Piedrahita
: solid research!
2 days 21 hrs
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Thank you, Juan!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "THANKS"
+1
35 mins
Juan Piedrahita
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
United States
The Art and Science of Translation
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Argentine, Mexican, Latin American, US, Colombian, Standard-Spain) , English (Variants: US South, British, Canadian, US)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
self-abdicated
I'd suggest the short /self-abdicated/ for that first sentence "“Con el yo abdicado,"
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
JohnMcDove
: Important to keep "abdicated" as a Royal term, in the allegorical register of the original
3 hrs
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3 hrs
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Mexico
Native in Spanish
Specializes in field
Mexico
Confianza, certeza, creatividad.
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Mexican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, French to Spanish, and 6 more.
Reference comments
17 mins
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Spain
Native in Spanish
Works in field
Spain
Golf, Literature and Religion Specialist
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Spanish
Reference:
abdicar del yo
to give up one's self.
Discussion
Lo que sea... poco caballeroso, respetuoso y falto de espíritu de colaboración... y de nulo agradecimiento hacia quien ayuda. Hace mucho que no contesto... y a muchísimos otros en su caso. Una lástima.
Just saying.