condensation
- noun
- /ˌkɒndənˈseɪʃən/
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condensación
- Socialist realism, the art of the Stalinist period, plays a specific role in Dag Solstad's universe during the '70s as a "nodal point," a point of condensation that gives meaning to the perplexing experience of modernism.
Examples
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" In Freud, overdetermination is "a consequence of the work of condensation" and signifies that "formations," like dreams or symptoms, must be attributed to a plurality of determining factors.
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Condensation merges stereotypes with symbolic metaphors and reduces complex phenomena to their essential core with the help of a single cartoon.
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Keta's portraits thus represent a collision and condensation of individual identity, physical place, and place in time.
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Symbolic condensation and dense representations seem to be aligned with the film's final destination, but it still wasn't able to remove the bad taste the film force-feeds you.
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The fantasy teacher of pedagogic love is a persuasive condensation symbol (Edelman, 1985).
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His citation of dreams as the impetus for several works finally recollects Freud's connection between the dream's skewed logic of indirect representation, condensation, and displacement and the mechanisms of the joke.
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In psychoanalysis, condensation allows multiple ideas to represent a single struggle in a person's dreams.
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Dream analysis often reveals condensation, where various emotions combine into one vivid symbol.
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The therapist explained that condensation is when different feelings merge into one image during a dream.
Synonyms
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To join several groups or parts together to make one stronger unit
A way of joining different ideas and images in your mind into one clear picture
A coming together of different ideas and experiences into one event
Deep joining of two or more things so they mix but keep their own form
Compounds
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A device that makes a very strong vacuum by turning gas into liquid on cold surfaces
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word condensation comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and dens 'thick', as in condense and dense. In dream interpretation, condensation is when many ideas 'come together' into a single image, so one picture can stand for several thoughts at once.