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Psychoanalysis

Unconscious, defence, transference, interpretation — the terms of a theory that shaped everyday speech.

El duelo is two words that fell into one. The first is grief: el duelo psíquico, guardar duelo, está de duelo — the work of mourning, with no fight anywhere in it. The second is exactly our « duel », two people and a set of rules: lo retó a duelo. Spanish tells them apart by what stands around them, and a reader who brings only the English word to a death notice will find it announcing a swordfight. « Grief » has no cognate here at all; « duel » has one, and it is the rarer of the two.

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