English

Adjective

phantasmatic ‎(comparative more phantasmatic, superlative most 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.