phantasmagoria
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Instead, the absence of information leaves a phantasmagoria inside us, akin to what my colleague, the psychoanalyst Andrea Bleichmar has described, an ever-shifting torment of shadowy images and fantasies.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023
The first word we see written down in “Beau Is Afraid,” Ari Aster’s raging Oedipal phantasmagoria of a movie, is “Guilt,” with a capital “G.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023
Somewhere in the middle of the swirling phantasmagoria that is the play “On Set With Theda Bara,” indeed one will.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
There is something more than the muffled phantasmagoria of urban life going on here.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023
If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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