reify

The two are reificatory. The Self looks down and constructs the inferiority of the Other as an antihistoric essence.

I've never liked the leftist use of the term 'the dialectic', which seems to me deeply reificatory, but the 'dialectical' is a different matter.

(14) Insofar as the encyclical follows Aquinas on this point, one must acquit the document of the charge of reificatory, ontotheological thought.

At the same time, the analysis is arguably sometimes obscured by a tendency to refer, in apparently reificatory terms, to 'the state', as if endowed with conscious purposes and strategies of its own.