The Imaginary

Unhinging an Imaginary Closet Door The only object out of place on my father’s thick oak desk was the Pamela Anderson edition of Playboy. Next to an overgrown stack of tax returns and a leather-cased smartphone, Pamela posed in a strapless, black satin dress that accentuated the curve between her waist and breasts. A fantasy for almost any pubescent twelve year-old. “You want it, Michael?” my father asked, turning his chair towards me. His knowing grin reminded me of when he and I would dress…

Lannan Literary Award, the 2005 Robert Creeley Award, a Whiting Award, and more. The poem “Imaginary Waterfall” has a speaker who isn’t actually mentioned such as a friend who saw it happen or the poet herself. The poem uses terms like she and he proving that the person isn’t personally involved in the situation of the abuse between the man and woman. This poem has an overall idea of being hurt by love. In “Imaginary Waterfall” C. D, Wright writes “the synesthesia of his…

Only those with the truest spirit could unlock the invincible power to the Key of Happiness. In the mythical land of Chattahoochee Hills, it's forests call those spirit to enter the secret World of Tomorrow, so they could live together, unite as one, and dance under the limitless sky. The World of Tomorrow, reveals the secrets of the key thought back years ago, "in a time when darkness roamed and creativity and joy were forbidden. There was an inventor with only one dream, releasing the world…

ideology by addressing two separate theses. The first is based on the idea that “the object… is represented in the imaginary form of ideology” while the second focuses on the “materiality of ideology” (152). For the purpose of this paper, the first thesis regarding an imaginary relationship will be studied and analyzed. Through this thesis, we can see that Althusser explains the imaginary relationship to be a way in which…

to construct what we know, do and say. In Althusser’s first thesis from his essay Ideology and the State, he says that “ideology represents the imaginary…

civilizations that have occupied Mexico throughout the centuries. Batalla named these two civilizations the Mexico Profundo and the imaginary Mexico. He explains how these civilizations have major differences that restrict their ability to coexist peacefully together. This book provides a detailed perspective of the differences and effects of the Mexico Profundo and the imaginary Mexico, the colonization of Mexico, Mexico after the colonial period, and the modern resistances of the Mexico…

loved in order to have a baby. Pecola has searched for love and has not had any luck. In desperation for love and affection, Pecola creates an imaginary friend. She talks to her imaginary friend about many things, including her “new” eyes. Pecola now believes that she has been gifted pretty blue eyes by a local fortune teller. She accuses her imaginary friend of being jealous of her beautiful blue eyes. Pecola has always been the ugliest person in the community but now, after her tragedy,…

Imaginary friends are often a key part of childhood. They can show some of the inner workings of a child’s mind. They are created from imagination, a desire for friendship and entertainment. However, as children grow older they leave these characters behind. No longer do they need them, so they think of their imaginary friends less. Once a child reaches a certain age, imaginary friends stop being cute creations and begin to be looked down on. In “Death by Landscape” Lois reached the age where…

many psychological connections like pruning, imaginary friends, stress, and neurons by watching the movie Inside Out (Doctor, 2015). Pruning happens…

Imaginary friends are a part of any childhood, whether its toys or dolls coming to life through a child’s imagination or a completely made up character that only that child can see. But there comes a time when the child grows into adolescence and the hardest part about growing up is knowing when to let go of childish things. That's especially true for imaginary friends. Kate Tsang's, "So You've Grown Attached" is a touching take on when growing up and letting go become necessary but at the…