[Ads-l] enshittification

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thank you for carefully examining the context, Andy.

[Begin excerpt]
Another item of special interest in Rynaldo's case is the symbolical
language the subject has created more particularly to express his
subconscious attitude towards the analyst. It is not the dreams which
give us the greatest help in this analysis, but the spontaneous
associations which surge up ready-made in the mind of the subject at
any moment of the day, and of which he makes notes.
[End excerpt]

Hence, it appears that the psychoanalytic patient "Rynaldo" came up
with the term "merdalisation verbale", and translators Eden and Cedar
Paul came up with "verbal shittification".

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:58 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is an intriguing snippet
> [Begin excerpt]
> Psychoanalysis itself comes in for:
> verbal shittification [merdalisation verbale]
> I spit
> tiring colloquy
> internal radiography
> infantile radiography.
> [End excerpt]
>
> I downloaded the pdf and backing up from the quote, found that this list
> (and others) are word associations of a psychoanalytic patient (Rynaldo):
> "a symbolic language the subject has created ... which surge up ready-made
> in the mind of the subject at any moment of the day." The analyst also
> believes that some of the words are neologisms, so maybe this Rynaldo is
> the inventor of "shittification", though in French.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:26 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> > > Wiktionary also has shittification with citations back to 2001:
> > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shittification
> > >
> > > UD: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shittification
> > >
> > > “Shittifiation” isn’t in Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com or the OED.
> >
> > Here is a citation for "shittifiation" in 1922. The term was
> > translated from the French term "merdalisation".
> >
> > Year: 1922
> > Book Title: Studies in Psychoanalysis
> > Author: Charles Baudouin
> > Translators: Eden and Cedar Paul
> > Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
> > Chapter 12: The Search for a Guide
> > Quote Page 428
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=VasRAAAAYAAJ&q=shittification#v=snippet&
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Psychoanalysis itself comes in for:
> >
> > verbal shittification [merdalisation verbale]
> > I spit
> > tiring colloquy
> > internal radiography
> > infantile radiography.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
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