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.”

The "background facts to her nightmare," Britton writes, invoking Freud, "opened a door to unconscious phantasies of a dreadful scene of childbirth."

The dispatcher is accused of having played the phantasy game “Dungeon Hunter 5” on his smartphone until shortly before the crash, dpa reported.

But what stands in our way most dramatically now, like an 800-pound gorilla, is the GOP’s wild-eyed phantasy of omnipotent male power.

With the help of this projective identification, one can replace undesirable qualities with the stuff of phantasy.