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thought-image - a mental image produced by the imagination

image, mental image - an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

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He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.

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This emphasis on the thought-image's non-identical character enables Richter to produce some very interesting insights, especially in his explanation of how in Minima Moralia Adorno takes Hitler and the Nazis to extend the culture industry dominating Germany in the 1920s and 1930s or to impose a dialectic of culture and barbarism after Auschwitz.

Gerhard Richter. Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life

[36] Benjamin's concept of the 'thought-image' in fact leaves traces in Kracauer's psychological analysis of film and this interpretation of film as photographic preconditions his psychological reading.

Film as memory: Siegfried Kracauer's psychological history of German 'National Culture'

Richter asserts that dreams and music traverse Bloch's texts in a variety of modulations and tonalities: he dreams to the music of thought-images. The musical note traverses our selves in an event of hearing that at once empties the self.

The textuality of musical experience and the limits of musical expression

Thought-images; Frankfurt School writers' reflections from damaged life.

Thought-images; Frankfurt School writers' reflections from damaged life

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