phantasmatic
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /fantəzˈmatɪk/
Adjective

phantasmatic

  1. Phantasmal, incorporeal. [from 17th c.]
    • 1990, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Taylor & Francis 2002, p. 85:
      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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