Phantasy vs Phantasm - What's the difference?
phantasy | phantasm |
* H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth :
(psychology) The innate mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
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something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
As nouns the difference between phantasy and phantasm
is that phantasy is dated form of lang=en while phantasm is something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.phantasy
English
Noun
(phantasies)- … what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?
Usage notes
In psychological writing, the spelling phantasy'' is often used to differentiate the Kleinian concept, which represents an innate unconscious process, from the related Freudian concept ''fantasy'', with is conscious and deliberate.''Internal Objects Revisited by Joseph Sandler, Anne-Marie Sandler, page xiiReferences
phantasm
English
Alternative forms
* fantasmNoun
(en noun)- He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.