Sentence examples for imaginary father from inspiring English sources

Problems arise at her boarding school when she creates an imaginary father, and her friends demand to meet him.

Curiously, Hemon seems to share some of this imaginary father's unease with fiction's tricks.

The imaginary father empowers a new psychic space premised on the distinction between internal and external, self and other.

As the drives expel, detach, or isolate a proto-object, the space of differentiation is supported by identification with the imaginary father, who holds it open.

The imaginary father is here associated with love (unlike the symbolic father who is associated with law), an invitation to language and subjectivity, to become a being who can have relations with others.

Since the bond of identification precedes any bond with objects, the imaginary father is what makes possible the initial separation between ego and object, or rather proto-ego and proto-object.

This reconstruction of the life of an imaginary father-author combines elements of the supernatural with a Gramscian quest for the soul or identity of a nation.

They're two different imaginary people, father and son.

Imaginary conversation between Father and Junior as Father sees Superman on television.

A young man called Philippos Loizos incurred the ire of Greece's far-right camp, and then of the law, by posing as an imaginary figure called "Father Pastitsios", named after a stodgy Greek dish.

In my father's imaginary retelling, a Peruvian defender stole the imaginary ball from Pelé, surged forward, the imaginary attack culminating in a Peruvian shot clanging off the crossbar, only to be knocked in by an opportunistic and imaginary Peruvian forward.