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

I do not think that psychoanalysts have reflected very deeply upon the distinction between phantasy and reality.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will remember that we once hoped to gain access to the understanding of the dream problem by the fact that certain very transparent phantasy formations are called day dreams.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund