Definition of "verticalise"

Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.

1999, Gilbert Durand, The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, page 154