phantasmatic

adj

phantasmatic

adj

UK /fantəzˈmatɪk/

Etymology From Late Latin phantasmaticus.

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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