Meaning of pseudolife | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that has many of the characteristics of life but which is not life.
   countable, uncountable
2. An inauthentic life; a life that lacks something necessary for being meaningful or worthwhile.
   countable, uncountable
3. A false image of one's life.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“A carved slave in the grave of an Egyptian aristocrat was just stone, a painted basket of food was just a painting, until consecration endowed them with a pseudolife, a ghostly existence between this and the next life.”

“He could remember anything, in that short life or in the long, long pseudolife that followed, provided only that he could remember where to look for it in his stored memories.”

“To judge by this sample, wherever the discipline of philosophy of science has been touched by cognitive science the result has been a zombie — philosophy of science killed dead and brought back to ghoulish, mindless, pseudolife.”

“Dolls, stuffed toys, and character dolls can be given pseudolife.”

“Yes, it's a kind of suicide, this being committed to the pseudolife of mass organizations — daily suicide. Under the command of television you surrender your life to this or that organization.”

“In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the riverway of the pseudolife.”

“What is more, parents and teachers perpetuate that pseudolife onto their children. The children devalue other aspects of their unique identity, and are treated as labels instead of fingerprints.”

“This patient was tom between living a pseudolife—by attempting to bury all self-awareness—and taking the risk of looking back and experiencing and sharing her memories, accumulated pain, hate, guilt, shame, and neediness for emotional support and sensual contact.”

“Such pseudolives leave one out of touch with one's self, one's feelings, one's desires, needs, and hopes. Illustrative may be the homosexual who has pretended to be otherwise, or the "family man" who has remained faithful but is depressed and miserable.”

“People live to be seen, sometimes even “faking life” in hopes that their “pseudolife” goes viral.”

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