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phantasmatic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /fantəzˈmatɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

From Late Latin phantasmaticus.

Meanings

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. 1990, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Taylor & Francis, published 2002, page 85:

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