reifying

I dismiss this as reifying a purely mental phenomenon; plus it's too confounding for my developmental stage.

"The Director's reifying of the Protagonist can be seen as an attempt to reduce a living human being to the status of an icon of impotent suffering.

Finally, the heterogeneities and instabilities of associative feminist psychologies help them avoid reifying or reducing historically and theoretically important distinctions between symbol systems, and between discourses.

Its goal, he argued, "should be to destroy disciplinary boundaries, to sabotage reifying conventions, to identify and support intellectual revellions wherever they appear, and to do our best to make sense of whatever space we may have cleared and claimed for ourselves."