As for bekakte, let me please add a final comment to this. It means full of shit much more than just shitty. It actually doesn't mean shitty at all. The music I write can be really shitty at times, but it would not be bekakt for that reason. Freud tells an anecdote somewhere about a dr. who is called to a house of very rich people - typical nouveaux riches - because the woman is going to give birth. This happens in Vienna. When he arrives, the time is not ripe yet, so the dr. and the husband decide to play a game of cards. Suddenly, the woman screams terribly 'my God, help me' in French. The husband panics, esp. when he notices that the dr. calmly goes on dealing the cards. 'Just be patient,' he explains,'we are not there yet, trust me'. A couple of minutes later, the wife screams again, 'My God, I am dying, help me', this time in German. The dr. again calmly goes on playing the cards, to the complete consternation of the husband. Some time later on, the wife yells the same again, this time in Yiddish. The dr. goes to work immediately: indeed it's happening.
According to Freud, these people were not 'shitty' - there's no reason to assume they were - but they were bekakt because their desire to assimilate into gentile society and to hide or make irrelevant their Jewishness - and so, in Freud's opinion to ape the gentiles - was so strong that a real physical pain (labour) was needed to bring them back to the culture they came from in the first place. So, shitty refers to a degree of quality (lack thereof), bekakte refers to inauthenticity, pretentiousness, pretending, alienation (and neurosis, if you want).
Best regards, Will
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