Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing resurrection; bringing the dead to life.
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Examples
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Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I call resurrective ideology.
Robert D. Stolorow: Resurrective Ideology In An Age Of Trauma 2008
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Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I have called resurrective ideology .
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I have called resurrective ideology .
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Through such resurrective ideology and its rhetoric of evil, Americans could evade the excruciating vulnerability that had been exposed by the attack and once again feel great, powerful, and godlike.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Tragically, every effort to actualize such ideological illusions inflicts collective trauma on those who are attacked, and they respond with an intensification of their resurrective ideologies.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to destructive "resurrective ideologies" that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that had been lost.
Robert D. Stolorow: Death and Resurrection Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Tragically, every effort to actualize such ideological illusions inflicts collective trauma on those who are attacked, and they respond with an intensification of their resurrective ideologies.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to resurrective ideologies that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that have been lost.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Through such resurrective ideology and its rhetoric of evil, Americans could evade the excruciating vulnerability that had been exposed by the attack and once again feel great, powerful, and godlike.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to resurrective ideologies that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that have been lost.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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