Phantasm

Quick meaning: Phantasm is a noun meaning Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.

Meaning

Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) An impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.

Example Sentences

Again, in a sense, the act of understanding as an insight into phantasm is knowledge of form: but the form so known does not correspond to the philosophic concept of form; “insight is to phantasm as form is to matter; […]”

[…] schematic way the essential characteristics of the phantasm in Derrida so that we can then see how Derrida's analysis of the phantasm of the mother (or of maternity) at once contributes to and displaces this configuration.

He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

When abstracted from the phantasm by the intellectus agens the species effects a modification in the intellectus possibilis which modification is called the species intelligibilis impressa. Actualized by the species impressa the intellectus […]

Word Forms

• phantasms
• phantasim
• phantasma

Synonyms for phantasm

Depending on context, synonyms include phantasia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phantasma, phantom, phantasmagory, phantasmagoria, phantasia, apparition.

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