0 the state of feeling very confused because someone or something is impossible to understand:
I warned explicitly for a mystification of particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology.
The earlier comments and criticism selected here fluctuate between different kinds of mystification and misreading.
Here we skirt the deep waters of false consciousness, of reification and mystification.
In particular, there is a hazy area in which unfamiliar vocabulary is regarded as essential terminology by some, but as pointless mystification by others.
The idea of the work of art as occult-inspired enchantment is already a mask for the commodity, and a strategy for its mystification.
Gandhi's clear recognition of the role the railways played in undergirding colonial rule cut through the mystification.
Some ancient ritual sites, apparently tied to iron working and all of its ritual mystifications, functioned as central foci of cultural identity, political legitimacy and economic production.
It is instrumental in an ontological-political mystification, that is, the individual- upon which national, confessional, and class affiliation transpires-rests on the naturalness of a desiring self.