| 单词 |
demystify |
| 释义 |
demystify, v.|diːˈmɪstɪfaɪ|
[f. de- II. 1 + mystify v.]
trans. To clarify (obscure, clouded, or irrational beliefs); to reduce or remove bewilderment, irrationality, etc., in (a person).
1963Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 19/2 And so he has devoted himself to ‘demystifying politics’. 1967D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-Psychiatry v. 101 People (the analytic subjects) are demystified in terms of their phantastic hopes of gratification from the therapist as a parent-figure.
Hence deˌmystifiˈcation, the action of demystifying.
1964Economist 16 May 734/2 An attempt at demystification and therefore of human liberation. 1967D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-Psychiatry iv. 76 Demystification of these issues is necessary before..recommending..psycho-therapy or psycho-analysis. Ibid. v. 101 This avoidance is conducted in the name of a sort of demystification. 1969N.Y. Rev. Books 16 Jan. 16/3 Aron talks again and again of demystification and desacralization, by which he means dissolving false or ideological constructs about the world and letting reality emerge as it really is. |
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