(17) Moreover, impersonation seems to be essentially
phantasmic. The impersonator deliberately exaggerates a gesture of the impersonated so that his audience reacts, "Yes, the impersonated person behaves exactly like that!" This impression of "exactly," as if the audience are presented with a likeness of the impersonated one, is the accuracy produced by exaggeration.
The titular Idea is personified in a
phantasmic naked woman rejected by a nightmarish world.
In his letter to Sinclair, which begins Book Three, the poet Doug Oliver comments approvingly on the novel's 'recognition that the self and its
phantasmic forms and ghosts must be recognised before the self-as-self-healing or self-"disappearing' can enter the simultaneity of true knowing' (WCST, p163).
Therefore, Canada developed the boundaries of its national civic body through its opposition to the East, a
phantasmic site imagined as harsh, backwards, and unchanging.
All these elements concur with the life of Jennings, and point to a Lejeunian
phantasmic pact operating in Moral Hazard, just as it is in Monkey Grip and The Spare Room.
Dinkins echoes Don's
phantasmic brother Adam, his wounds persisting beyond death, testaments to a past that cannot be overcome.
Collective Effervescence:
Phantasmic Origin of the Just Republic?
These concerns produced a "
phantasmic" notion of an idealized racial and gendered France: hyper-masculine, heterosexual, and Caucasian as a palliative to a variety of ills: national weakness, the femme moderne, parliamentary government, and the socialist/Jewish/colonial enemy among others.
Reportedly, the company earned its first revenues this year by releasing new games including
Phantasmic and Bluff Wars 2.0, with Novalon's latest title, Creature Tavern, hitting the Google Play app market last week.
Farnell succinctly defines the Thing as 'a
phantasmic reference to an unnameable void at the centre of the Real, that amorphous, chaotic, meaningless physical level beyond all reference that both resists and provokes symbolization'.
This perspective suggests a radical de-essentialisation of state power, and often figures the state's 'magic' as a
phantasmic effect of its historically specific technologies, practices, and institutions (Coronil 1997; Taussig 1998; see also Fisher 2012; Timmer 2010).
