ideational
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- Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
- 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 61:
- An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its ideational content [translating Vorstellungsinhalt], but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.
- 2004, John P. Bartkowski, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men, page 42:
- Ideational culture, which Sorokin counterposes to the sensate, is generated through more ethereal forms of engagement with the world. Ideational culture also abounds in religious communities.