- 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
Even those of our comrades who ordinarily dreamed but seldom, now had long stories to tell, when in the morning we exchanged our latest experiences in that realm of phantasy.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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
The man's last remark could have but one meaning, and the image of the girl among the wallflowers and with the jealous lover, emerged in singular distinctness from last night's feverish phantasies.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen
These phantasies possess psychological reality in contrast to physical reality, and so we gradually come to understand that in the realm of neuroses the psychological reality is the determining factor.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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
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
