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

Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar out of air.

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 Freud, Sigmund