LekhoriLekhoriTo detach from reality; to subject to or cause to undergo derealization.
Flaubert's choice of the imaginary is part of a bad-faith project to derealize and demoralize the bourgeoisie who, living in the imaginary world of Second Empire pretense, found in Madame Bovary their resonance.
From de- + real + -ize.
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