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metonymic

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And for some reason, feminine and remote, she now detested her 'hand' so much as to be unable to bring herself to the metonymic mention of it.

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Using more or less the Socrates methodology of an imaginary dialog between the reader and himself, Lacan enters the world of reality using as his tools the algorithms of metonymic and metaphoric structures. — MyLinkVault Newest Links
Instead, he's part of a team that has a metonymic relationship with the country as a whole. — PopMatters
Their varying responses to the archetypal metonymic referent for the lives lost in the Holocaust is certainly as affecting as the falling bodies in — PopMatters
A conflation of legality and legitimacy, brilliantly explored by Carl Schmitt, is the first of three essential confusions I term "the metonymic abuses of modernity." — TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
Furthermore, in aligning the three metonymic abuses of modernity, I reconstruct the multi-layered edifice of contemporary politics and, at the same time, show how Schmitt chisels away its fixed and ossified building blocks. — TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog