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This certain interval will give rise to the eerie phantasmatic ir-reality of the Sanatorium as a result of the contamination and rapid decomposition of time.

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The phantasmatic return of evil..on a (US) base located in a (Latin American) country that is not considered a friendly nation (to the US).

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The desire to avenge the horrors of slavery by remaking the world in an altogether different image is replaced by a phantasmatic accession to absolute sovereignty.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Equiano's gesture is not grounded on territorial claims — the English have yet to colonize the region — but rather on a phantasmatic form of

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

While he later identifies this ticking as the phantasmatic effect of his wife's cancer on him and their environment, its death-watch function doubles back once Ralph becomes afflicted with insomnia that causes him to awaken fifteen minutes earlier each night, so that, eventually, he ceases to sleep altogether.

'Insomnia: A Cultural History' 2008

As the phantasmatic drama unfolds, the white sailors of the Morning Star are initially deployed as the observers in the illustrations, but, borrowing a phrase from Reik's analysis of Christian masochism, the subject [in this case, Equiano] functions both as the victim and the victimizer, dispensing with the need for an external object.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

In light of the earlier masochistic scenario, could we not argue that Equiano re-casts himself simultaneously as the Levite and the Levite's wife in this phantasmatic scene?

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

That volatility requires not only repeated reassertions of his paternality — as Teltscher demonstrates, this ideological assemblage is highly over-determined — but also supplementation by a series of more complex phantasmatic constructions which not only undo the tight ideological sutures achieved in the initial performance, but also raise questions about how the nation can be seen at this distance from the metropole.

Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

Second, that Equiano's phantasmatic abasement becomes more explicitly sexualized and more overtly violent.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Star has transformed into a phantasmatic consolidation whose force is not that of narrative but rather of visual signification.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006