It would not be enough to replace magical thinking with mechanical, ' economistic ' thinking.
Magical thinking would be evident here, since the child may believe that the family pet being gone is just temporary.
More generally, it is magical thinking to take a symbol to be its referent or an analogy to represent an identity.
Bluthgeld is subject to paranoia, magical thinking, and megalomania; he may or may not actually have magical powers.
Other symptoms may include odd beliefs or magical thinking.
This is known as magical thinking, when you think you can affect the world by doing such things.
By an application of magical thinking, dogs were branded with the key in hopes of protecting them from rabies.
Morphic resonance is rejected by numerous critics on multiple grounds, and has been labelled pseudoscience and magical thinking.
