phantasy

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

That pearl is from a mine unknown to thee, That ruby bears a stamp thou canst not see The tale of love some other tongue must tell, All our conjectures are mere phantasy.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

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 had so completely absorbed myself in these phantasies, that finally I believed that I myself had lived through this love.

From The Wish A Novel by Hermann Sudermann

Lisette is smiling; she is not asleep, but she has closed her eyes, the better to enjoy her little world of phantasies and dreams.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various