- 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
As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life.
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
But it is not possible: phantasies, sophisms, castles in the air, have been constructed in this way, but science never.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Every hour but adds to my entanglement, and if there is a shadow of foundation for the phantasies of the lunatic, the sooner I make the plunge the better.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers
There can be no doubt as to the sources of the impulse, but we must explain why the same phantasies are always created with the same content.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
This situation was undoubtedly the starting point for the phantasies, whose after-effects made themselves felt in her ritual.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
