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A Phatic image is a representation that has become so precise (like with a photograph) that the imaginative context is blown out, leaving imaginative perception lazy and rendering the reader incapable of making a 'reading'.
A Phatic image is a representation that has become so precise (like with a photograph) that the imaginative context is blown out, leaving imaginative perception lazy and rendering the reader incapable of making a 'reading'.