Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
reminiscencia despreciativa
English translation:
depreciating reminiscence
Added to glossary by
peter jackson
Jun 13, 2015 06:22
8 yrs ago
Spanish term
Spain
reminiscencia despreciativa
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Psychology
I am having real problems deciding how to put this. I have found a good number of references with glorification, denigration and reminiscence together, but nothing for "denigratory reminiscence" which seems to be the closest translation. Indeed, Word doesn't even seem too keen on "denigratory". I don't have access to the cited study.
McMahon y Rhudick (1964) refirieron dos tipos de reminiscencia: (1) La revisión de vida y (2) La reminiscencia despreciativa o glorificación. La revisión de vida, como forma de reminiscencia, se encontraría relacionada con la resolución de conflictos, la aceptación del yo y de los demás, con el significado de la vida y con la integración del pasado con el presente.
McMahon y Rhudick (1964) refirieron dos tipos de reminiscencia: (1) La revisión de vida y (2) La reminiscencia despreciativa o glorificación. La revisión de vida, como forma de reminiscencia, se encontraría relacionada con la resolución de conflictos, la aceptación del yo y de los demás, con el significado de la vida y con la integración del pasado con el presente.
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References
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Charles Davis
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Ana Vozone
Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
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depreciating reminiscence
Only one example/occurence found... but the context seems relevant.
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| Thanks, Ana. Obviously better at trawling the internet than me. |
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Charles Davis
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Many thanks, Charles!
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Billh
: see Charles' research
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Many thanks, Billh!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Many thanks, Ana."
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Nedra Rivera Huntington
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Reliability, conscientiousness and style
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US)
Works in: Spanish to English, English
escapist reminiscence / defensive reminiscence
See http://jshellman-reminiscence.wiki.uml.edu/file/view/Watt_Wo...
"Escapist reminiscence is characterized by a tendency to glorify the past and deprecate the present. It is also referred to as defensive reminiscence (LoGerfo,1980-1981)."
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Seems like it's along those lines.
"Escapist reminiscence is characterized by a tendency to glorify the past and deprecate the present. It is also referred to as defensive reminiscence (LoGerfo,1980-1981)."
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Note added at 24 mins (2015-06-13 06:46:51 GMT)
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Seems like it's along those lines.
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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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99
reminiscence that [glorifies or] disparages
I would put 'glorifies' first to set the stage for the contrast. Our mind tends to judge our memories.
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Adoración Bodoque Martínez
Ireland
Ireland
Native in Spanish
Specializes in field
Ireland
B.A. Eng. & Ling., DipTrans IoLET, MCIL
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
Related KudoZ points
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derisive / disdainful / contemptuous reminiscence
Although they do not seem very popular either, I think these are options that are close in meaning to the Spanish "despreciativa", and could work.
Reference comments
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Reference:
McMahon & Rhudick
In this type of situation I try to see if I can find the original source, since it's obvious that the terms used in your Spanish source are already translations of whatever terms McMahon & Rhudick used.
McMahon & Rhudick 1964 is an article called "Reminiscing: significance in the aged". Archives of General Psychiatry, 10, 292-298. I can't find a copy of this online (not very surprising, given its age). However, I have found a comparative survey of taxonomies of reminiscence by various authors in Jeffrey D. Webster & Barbara K. Haight, The Art and Science of Reminiscing: Theory, Research, Methods, and Applications, where they quote what appears to be a later version of McMahon and Rhudick's 1964 study, "Reminiscing in the aged: An adaptational response", in Studies in Aging. (NewYork: International Universities Press, 1967). Webster and Haight say the following:
"McMahon and Rhudick (1967) discussed two types of reminiscence used by their sample of veterans: life review, equal to integrative reminiscence, and depreciating and glorifying reminiscence, which in our opinion relates to Watt and Wong's escapist, Webster's boredom reduction, and Sherman's enhancing types of reminiscence."
https://books.google.es/books?id=QSdYrNsaYyQC&pg=PT337&lpg=P...
McMahon & Rhudick 1964 is an article called "Reminiscing: significance in the aged". Archives of General Psychiatry, 10, 292-298. I can't find a copy of this online (not very surprising, given its age). However, I have found a comparative survey of taxonomies of reminiscence by various authors in Jeffrey D. Webster & Barbara K. Haight, The Art and Science of Reminiscing: Theory, Research, Methods, and Applications, where they quote what appears to be a later version of McMahon and Rhudick's 1964 study, "Reminiscing in the aged: An adaptational response", in Studies in Aging. (NewYork: International Universities Press, 1967). Webster and Haight say the following:
"McMahon and Rhudick (1967) discussed two types of reminiscence used by their sample of veterans: life review, equal to integrative reminiscence, and depreciating and glorifying reminiscence, which in our opinion relates to Watt and Wong's escapist, Webster's boredom reduction, and Sherman's enhancing types of reminiscence."
https://books.google.es/books?id=QSdYrNsaYyQC&pg=PT337&lpg=P...
Peer comments on this reference comment:
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Billh
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Yep. Thanks, Bill :)
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Thanks, Muriel :)
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Discussion
It seems that every author who discusses reminiscence uses a different taxonomy, but this is giving an account of McMahon and Rhudick's categories and surely McMahon and Rhudick's term ought to be used.