Imaginary

Imaginary can refer to:

  • Imaginary (sociology), a concept in sociology
  • The Imaginary (psychoanalysis), a concept by Jacques Lacan
  • Imaginary number, a concept in mathematics
  • Imaginary time, a concept in physics
  • Imagination, a mental faculty
  • Object of the mind, an object of the imagination
  • Imaginary friend
  • Imaginary Records, a record label

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Famous quotes containing the word imaginary:

    Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
    Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may see it carried in the procession of our nation’s birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)