phantasy

plural phantasies

1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic spelling of fantasy.

   […] what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?

   1931 November–December, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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   What generous self-sacrifice—what a world of gentle affection, were now called forth in Emily by a moment's phantasy, whose life depended on that frailest of frail things, a coquette's vanity!

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 319

   Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.

   However, Klein's phantasy is not exactly Lacan's imaginary fantasy; it is, I think, more than that.

   2013, Lene Austed, quoting Jonathan Davidoff, “Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics”, in Nationalism and the Body Politic, →ISBN, page 262

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   By later Kleinians and critics alike, phantasy is often seen as identical to Freud's concept of psychic reality.

   1987, Juliet Mitchell, “Introduction”, in Selected Melanie Klein, →ISBN, page 22

present singular third person phantasies · participle present phantasying · participle past phantasied · past phantasied

1. archaicArchaic spelling of fantasy.