NOUN
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fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies -
something many people believe that is false
they have the illusion that I am very wealthy -
imagination unrestricted by reality
a schoolgirl fantasy
How To Use phantasy In A Sentence
- Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
- The common sense stands midway between the corporeal sense of sight and the imagination, which is in the anterior chamber of the brain, and is known as phantasy (Aristotelian φαντασία). A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
- Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Suppose, further, that these are essential to accounting for the other basic psychoanalytic categories like phantasy, projections, introjections, denial, defense, repression etc.
- What i missed most was some good science fiction/phantasy. Matthew Yglesias » TV Show of the Decade
- In the first phase of her writing, which adhered to Freudian theory for the most part, Klein laid down the principles of child psychoanalysis, reworked Freud’s developmental timetable by arguing that the child was capable of certain types of mental activities at an early age, and elaborated on the importance of the child’s fantasy (in Klein’s writings referred to as phantasy) life (Segal, 1974). Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
- This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
- So far we have used "phantasy" only of real or imaginary impressions of sense. Guide to Stoicism
- Freud presented the world of phantasy as a ‘storehouse’ that the patient can draw on to feed both his neurosis and his psychosis.
- It is the reality of "my story," even as yet unconceived, that loosens the hold of phantasy. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
