Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

desmemorización

English translation:

unremembering

Added to glossary by R.J.Chadwick (X)
Jul 21, 2002 20:42
21 yrs ago
Spanish term

desmemorización

Spanish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting art criticism
En realidad, Fulano sigue un preciso método de desmemorización donde se observa a sí mismo olvidando

Can't find enough hits for 'dememorisation' to convince me (2 to be exact). And I reckon if the writer had meant 'forgetting' he would have said so.

TIA, MJ

Proposed translations

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unremembering

"Unremember" gets a hundred and something hits in a search -- from poetic, technical and everyday contexts.

I hope you find just the word you need.
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This sounds like what they mean. This is all very post-modern, and the terms are very precise, so I would be afraid to put oblivion or forgetfulness."
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forgetfullness

but I'm no literary guru
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de-memorizing

well, at least we get three more hits.
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self-induced amnesia

Lots of hits for this one.


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a real Bitchin' site
... care and if god decides to drop the curtain, it wont matter much to me granted clemancy,
i lose myself in apathy, perverse affinity, a self induced amnesia no ...
http://bitchin.d-7.net/darc.php


Columns - March 8, 2001
... Ask Joey Love-induced amnesia By Joey Garcia. ... In time, your amnesia will lift completely
and you will begin ... has rewritten the three R’s as, “Respect for self, ...
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-03-08/joey.asp
More Results From: www.newsreview.com


Spy - Fi Archives Napoleon Solo's Business Card (UNCLE)
... In "The Nowhere Affair" episode, Solo—a captive of Thrush and a victim
of self-induced amnesia—opens his wallet to see exactly who he is. ...
http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/item10.html



Peer comment(s):

agree Valeria Verona : I like this option
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thank you Valeria
agree CHENOUMI (X) : I like it too.
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thankyou indeed
agree Paul Mably (X)
2 hrs
many thanks
agree Tania Marques-Cardoso
5 hrs
many thanks
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oblivion

Hola MJ,
Creo que esta se ajusta bien, ¿qué te parece a ti?
Buena suerte y saludos del Oso ¶:^)


Main Entry: obliv·i·on
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin oblivion-, oblivio, from oblivisci to forget, perhaps from ob- in the way + levis smooth -- more at OB-, LEVIGATE
Date: 14th century
1 : the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten; especially : the condition of being oblivious
2 : the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown

Merriam-Webster © 2002
Peer comment(s):

agree CHENOUMI (X) : Estás en la buena vía. :)
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Muchas gracias Chenoumi ¶:^))
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"voluntary oblivion"

"Fulano sigue un preciso método de desmemorización donde se observa a sí mismo olvidando" >>> "So and so follows a precise method of voluntary oblivion in which he is observing himself forgetting...<<<

Para ayudarte, te he proporcionado con algunas de las miles de referencias pertinentes que se encuentran disponibles:

... we can forgive to this extent: we can voluntarily divest our minds of wrath, hatred,
and revenge, and efface the remembrance of injuries by a voluntary oblivion ...


Deuteronomy 30:1-10,15-20
... their heart" is equivalent to considering what before had been despised through contempt,
or neglect, or stupidity, and buried as it were in voluntary oblivion ...
www.ccel.org/c/calvin/comment3/ comm_vol05/htm/x.xii.htm -

Ezekiel 18:21-22 -
... On the whole, Ezekiel pronounces that all the penitent pass at once from death
to life, since God blots out all their transgressions by voluntary oblivion. ...
www.ccel.org/c/calvin/comment3/ comm_vol23/htm/vii.vii.htm

THE CATECHISM OF TRENT: The Lord's Prayer - Fifth Petition -
... There are those who, aware that they ought to bury injuries in voluntary oblivion
and ought to love those that injure them, desire to do so, and do so as far ...
www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/ master/trent/tpray05.htm

Complete Index to Franz Schubert's Solo Songs
... Mayrhofer. Freiwilliges Versinken, voluntary oblivion, D700, Mayrhofer.
Freude der Kinderjahre, joy of childhood, D455, Köpken. Frohsinn, ...
www.webone.com.au/~mld/Schubert_A.html
Peer comment(s):

agree MichelBah (X) : Very good!
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Thank you.
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dememoriZation

gets 24 hits on google - I'd try to stick to that in the light of the "preciso método"...

HTH
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voluntary loss of memory

which also means "self induced amnesia" as somebody else already suggested.
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memory loss (method)

The simplest the best
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