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

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

Then, his phantasy driving him, he went down into the cemetery, where the grass was so tall and inviting; so brilliant in the sunshine.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire

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

Visions, like the phantasies of delirium, are no ordinary symptom of madness: delirium falsifies perception, madness the thoughts.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Yet, although he shrinks back no longer from any sort of evil deed, he does so before the horrible pictures of his phantasies, the hallucinations of his unconscious.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

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

Within its convenient circuit, what phantasies and dreams might not be realized?

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding