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14:49 Aug 17, 2010
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French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Psychology / Psychoanalytic Case Histories
French term or phrase: éclat aux franges
Younger woman-older woman (mother figure) dynamics. Psychological mirroring.

Contexte:

"L'autre femme, construite et rencontrée pour les besoins de la cause, cristallise avant tout une image pas comme les autres, ce n'est pas l'image apercue dans le mirioir, ni celle qui apparait sur une photo , dans laquelle la femme tente de se reconnaitre ou à laquelle elle va se mesurer. Cette image ne donne pas une forme à un corps. C'est une présence d'**éclat aux franges,** qui éblouit, fascine, effraie, appelle. 'Faire le peau,' c'est accomplir jusqu'au bout, dans un faire, l'affrontement à l'obscénité de l'image de l'autre femme."

Sorry about the missing diacritical marks.

Merci Beaucoup,

femme
Barbara Cochran
Local time: 14:55


Summary of answers provided
4bursting at the edges
Fiorsam
3blinding false front/guise/demeanor
Verginia Ophof
2sparkle at the outermost edgesclain


  

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blinding false front/guise/demeanor


Explanation:
Fringes ..false hair front

It is a presence of a " blinding false front/guise" which dazzles, enchants, frightens, calls.


Verginia Ophof
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neutral  Sandra Mouton: I don't see any undertone of falsehood in "aux franges"
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sparkle at the outermost edges


Explanation:
(of one's perception)

C.− P. métaph. ou au fig. Limite floue d'une réalité; état intermédiaire entre deux zones. Je disais qu'il [Baudelaire] fut le premier en France à charger chaque mot isolément du halo et de la frange des significations associées (Du Bos, Journal, 1922, p. 205). Comme les gens qui se tiennent aux franges seulement du pouvoir (Gracq, Syrtes, 1951, p. 325) :

http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/franges


This mirror image vision of the other woman is not in full view, but rather a tiny sparkling presence that is at a distance.



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bursting at the edges


Explanation:
or even: fragmented at the edges

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