Object

• notion: Thorn is OK as far as it goes but many people use it to reify the notion of mental illness, which is unnecessary.

• structure: The disadvantage of this approach is that reified structures are created which do not structure things in any natural way for human consumption.

• relation: At this stage of modernity, we only seem to be able to work together successfully through the mediation of reified social relations.

• object: It supposed a kind of communication on music as a reified object, which opposed music making and listening as communication between partners.

Modifying Another Word

• only: Capitalist consumption reifies not only the structures of the economic base but also the constructs of abstraction.