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has definitions from the fields of Jungian psychology,rhetoric
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[ noun ] an iconic mental representation
Synonyms Examples "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)A `` mental_image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought , or consciously in light sleep , is actually not an image at_all but is comprised of realities , viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream , but within the depths of the fourth_dimension . But then this theory confesses that it is completely at_a_loss as to how the image can possibly be received by the brain . But why is it necessary to reproduce the retinal image within the brain ? As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to suppose that the nerves , between the inner brain and the eyes , carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers - rather_than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in required location . As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to suppose that the nerves , between the inner brain and the eyes , carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers - rather_than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in required location . |
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[ noun ] (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the world
Synonyms Examples "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words : `` So God created man in his own image ; in the similitude of God he created him '' . There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished , so most notably in the statement : `` If the [ Holy ] Spirit is absent from the soul , such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; and , being left carnal , he will be an imperfect being , possessing the image [ of God ] in his formation , but not receiving the similitude [ of God ] through the Spirit '' . There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished , so most notably in the statement : `` If the [ Holy ] Spirit is absent from the soul , such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; and , being left carnal , he will be an imperfect being , possessing the image [ of God ] in his formation , but not receiving the similitude [ of God ] through the Spirit '' . Thus the image of God is that which makes a man a man and not an oyster ; the similitude of God , by contrast , is that which makes a man a child of God and not merely a rational creature . There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this , nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ) . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Examples "they showed us the pictures of their wedding" "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Physically , a movie is possible because a series of images is projected one at_a_time at such a speed that the eye `` remembers '' the one that has gone before even as it registers the one now appearing . Linking the smoothly changing images together , the eye itself endows them with the illusion of movement . (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)Consider a simple , closed , plane curve C which is a real analytic image of the unit circle , and which is given by **f . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)If , on_the_other_hand , they opted_for representation , it had to be representation per_se - representation as image pure_and_simple , without connotations ( at_least , without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)But William continued to find a bitter joy in smashing images and tearing_down symbols sacred to the Old_Church . |
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[ noun ] a standard or typical example
Examples "he is the prototype of good breeding" "he provided America with an image of the good father" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Parson_Weems 's George_Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Life is further characterized , in antithesis to Piepsam , as animal : the image of a dog , which appears at several places , is first given as the criterion of amiable , irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle : a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '' , `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; another wagon has no dog , and therefore is `` devoid_of interest '' . |
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[ verb ] imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Examples "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen" "I can see a risk in this strategy" |
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[ noun ] someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
Synonyms Examples "he could be Gingrich's double" "she's the very image of her mother" |
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[ noun ] a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
Synonyms Examples "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln" "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" |
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