el estrago de goce

06:35 May 8, 2016 

Thank you so much to all of you for your input. Like Liz I'm suffering from the "knackeration of motherhood" and this text nearly finished me off! Charles, I've taken your fantastic translations of "goce mortífero" and "la estabilización toxicómana en la psicosis" although I too am trying to think of a better term for "settling in" (which I might end up using if nothing comes to me) and Neil, I think on reflection "I'll stick with the ravages of pleasure" but have adopted your other eminently sensible suggestions. Good luck with your own stinker, Neil and thanks again to you all- I would not have been happy submitting this without your help.

09:18 May 7, 2016 

And "goce mortífero" is not the lethal desire for it but the lethal (or deadly) pleasure of it: the lethal pleasure of self-absorbed consumption.

09:13 May 7, 2016 

I don't think this means self-consumption. "Autista" expresses the idea of being "encerrada en su mundo", living in a world of the self detached from outside reality. I think "self-absorbed consumption" is more or less the idea.

06:17 May 7, 2016 

Could cover 'goce', the text describing its severe toll according to women's accounts...

14:31 May 6, 2016 

@Charles
doh! of course "estrago" = ravages!! not thinking straight

12:35 May 6, 2016 

How do you get "desire" from "estrago"?

12:33 May 6, 2016 

Hi, not sure about your translation for

"de la gran fornicadora producida por el estrago sexual temprano"

of the great fornicator arising from/produced byfrom early sexual desire,

we seem to part company on the meaning of this particular phrase

I don't know where you get "early negative sexual experiences" from...?

12:20 May 6, 2016 

The text is a bit of a stinker - there are so many ways to word it all. With this kind of text I usually don't worry such about sticking too literally to the form of the original, as I think it's important to make it readable for the target audience. I've got a similar 4K thing about education which I hope to be able to translate this weekend but I'm not really 'in the zone' for that yet (my translation today are all about fruit and veg)...

11:55 May 6, 2016 

I don't see what is wrong with "ravages of pleasure; "estrago materno" could = ravages of motherhood!
Obviously a psychological condition I didn't suffer from, just knackeration.

11:48 May 6, 2016 

I think "ravages of pleasure" is good. I can't think of anything better, at least for the moment. On the rest of paragraph, which is pretty difficult in places, there are two points where I read it differently, though I'm by no means sure.

First, I don't think "que redobla en autoritarismo masculino tradicional" means "is intensifed by traditional male authoritarianism" (I see it as "male" rather than "masculine", by the way). I take "redoblar", intransitive, to refer metaphorically to the roll of a drum (or the peal of a bell), and I think it means either "which echoes" or "which resonates with", the idea perhaps being (more or less) that women's sadomasochism reflects an interiorisation of male authoritarianism.

Second, I understand "la estabilización toxicómana en la psicosis" to mean something like "a drug-induced settling into psychosis" (there's a better word for settling into but I can't think of it): in other words, as a result of drug-taking psychosis is rendered permanent, or at least consolidated: estabilizar not as stabilising but as making "estable" in the sense of well established (like someone being "estabilizado", given a steady job). See what I mean?