pataphysical

English

Adjective

pataphysical (comparative more pataphysical, superlative most pataphysical)

1. Relating to pataphysics.
   • 1969, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:

     Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home

   • 1983, Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism‎^[1], Gale Research, →ISBN, page 201:

     [Fargue] couples a bent for discovery with a flair for creating a style suited to these astonishing circumnavigations, with their uncertain, hilarious or deceptive endings, to these ambiguous "dead ends cluttered with butterflies" where we observe the pataphysical creation of imaginary memories.

   • 1995, Esther N. Goody (Goody), Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and Implications of the Social Bias in Human Intelligence‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 276:

     I have argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form and application.

   • 2012, Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue‎^[3], Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN:

     This contrast between an earyl bpNichol who often used the liber the liberationist rhetoric of neo-Freudian psychotherapy to forumlate his poetics and Nichol who was part of The Four Horsemen and the creator of numerous pataphysical and conceptual texts contributes to a current tension within Nichol scholarship.