[July 2006 journal entry]
Peterson’s translation choice of ‘scrapheap’ gets at the idea of tragic sufferers no longer being visible or remembered. What is placed on the ‘scrapheap’ has no value, is forgotten, and eventually becomes as if never having existed. The ‘scrapheap’ metaphor could be associated with a garbage dump or a landfill, with the pile of scrap material at a construction site, or with discarded food scraps.
Peterson’s translation choice of ‘scrapheap’ gets at the idea of tragic sufferers no longer being visible or remembered. What is placed on the ‘scrapheap’ has no value, is forgotten, and eventually becomes as if never having existed. The ‘scrapheap’ metaphor could be associated with a garbage dump or a landfill, with the pile of scrap material at a construction site, or with discarded food scraps.
