- a variation of fantasy.
phantasy
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Every age, Mackay writes, “has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2019
With the help of this projective identification, one can replace undesirable qualities with the stuff of phantasy.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 9, 2015
Below the waist, though, it was the worse; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013
Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus of Dr. Lao.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was a mere phantasy; this is a reality.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
The "background facts to her nightmare," Britton writes, invoking Freud, "opened a door to unconscious phantasies of a dreadful scene of childbirth."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2018
It is to be feared that some of our ingenious theorists have too frequently tortured organism on a Procrustean couch, to suit their favourite phantasies.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
By this addition the accumulation of energy in the phantasies is heightened to such a degree that they become assertive and develop a pressure in the direction of realization.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
I struggle with these waking phantasies; my eyes are full of tears.
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie
Within its convenient circuit, what phantasies and dreams might not be realized?
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
