Phantasmatic

//fantəzˈmatɪk// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Phantasmal, incorporeal.

    "The recourse to the unconscious as a source of subversion makes sense, it seems, only if the paternal law is understood as a rigid and universal determinism which makes of ‘identity’ a fixed and phantasmatic affair."

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phantasmal

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"The recourse to the unconscious as a source of subversion makes sense, it seems, only if the paternal law is understood as a rigid and universal determinism which makes of ‘identity’ a fixed and phantasmatic affair."

Etymology

From Late Latin phantasmaticus.

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