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Jun 22, 2023 23:24
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Spanish term

el padre del corte

Spanish to English Other Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
From a text by an Argentine psychoanalyst. She is talking about the function of the father to break up the mother-child dyad. but the quotation marks in her version makes me think it is a term of art, perhaps with a specific translation in English:

Me ha llamado la atención el hecho de una especial articulación entre reivindicaciones de la diversidad y conceptualizaciones de la escuela francesa de psicoanálisis (Torres Arias, 2005). La cual valora el derecho de las lesbianas a concebir un hijx en pareja pero simultáneamente plantea la necesidad de la búsqueda de un hombre significativo (no necesariamente pareja) que oficie de “corte”. Considero que es un precio muy alto a pagar en el altar del dogma. Si asumimos que “el padre del corte” es una construcción histórica, solidaria de las formas tradicionales del dominio masculino que asegura a los padres varones el monopolio de la función simbólica.

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Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 Head of the household
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Discussion

Wendy Gosselin (asker) Jun 25, 2023:
Thanks! I can easily devise a phrase to explain the idea (the father figure and threat of castration break up the mother-child dyad) but the author's insistence on that specific term made me think there might be a phrase that appears in psychoanalytic theory in English.
Lisa Rosengard Jun 23, 2023:
It's a question about same - gender partnerships and whether or not a future child could have 2 mothers who could borrow a father occasionally.
AllegroTrans Jun 23, 2023:
What have you considered already? What have you rejected? Why should this be a "term of art" and what do you mean by that?

Proposed translations

+1
2 days 14 hrs

Head of the household

More a social than psychological term but could cover the idea
Peer comment(s):

agree neilmac : And "head" should pre-empt any perceived paternalistic bias of "padre"... (eyeroll)
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