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

Honour is truly a thing which does not admit of much modification, or suffer much tampering with; and what will not a strong phantasy see in any thing with its microscopic vision?

From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

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

Every hour but adds to my entanglement, and if there is a shadow of foundation for the phantasies of the lunatic, the sooner I make the plunge the better.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers

The content of these phantasies is dominated by very transparent motives.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

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

This development rapidly makes the symptom given by reality the representative of the unconscious phantasies that had been lurking for an opportunity to seize upon a means of expression.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud