- a variation of fantasy.
phantasy
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phantasies
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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
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
"Come, my royal brother," interrupted Christopher, hastily approaching the couch, "speak no more with that sick dreamer, he is in a fair way to infect you with his feverish phantasies."
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
The pictures of his vanished youth, which his whilom tutor skilfully interwove with his scriptural phantasies, were too forcibly driven home for his relaxed soul to resist them.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
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
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