phantasmatic

English

Etymology

From Late Latin phantasmaticus.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /fantəzˈmatɪk/

Adjective

phantasmatic (comparative more phantasmatic, superlative most phantasmatic)

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