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
As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will remember that we once hoped to gain access to the understanding of the dream problem by the fact that certain very transparent phantasy formations are called day dreams.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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
Those hide-and-seek, half-glimpsed, eerie phantasies that are hidden deep in every man’s subconscious mind were in the ascendancy to-night.
From Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery by Martin, Absalom
The content of these phantasies is dominated by very transparent motives.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
Our philosophic age with heavy draught, Drinks deep in phantasies, but fails to learn The wiser lesson of this early craft, To catch the wheel of fortune with each turn.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
Or, borne away by youthful phantasies, Neglect the duties of our sacred order?
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
