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See fantasy for an account of the literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting

A fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. Imagination is the ability to form Mental images/sounds/feelings or the ability to Spontaneously Generate images/sounds/feelings within one's own Mind Reality, in everyday usage means "the state of things as they actually exist" Fantasies typically involve situations which are impossible (such as the existence of magic powers) or highly unlikely. In Contract law, impossibility is an excuse for the nonperformance of duties under a contract based on a change in circumstances (or the discovery of preexisting circumstances Fantasies can also be sexual in nature. A sexual fantasy, also called an erotic fantasy, is a deliberate fantasy or pattern of Thoughts with the goal of creating or enhancing sexual feelings

Psychoanalysis

In the theory of psychoanalysis, fantasy is used to describe unconscious desires, fears, drives etc. Psychoanalysis is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and his followers which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior Sigmund Freud used the German word 'Phantasie', which could be translated as 'fantasy', but the meaning is clearly not the same as the everyday meaning and is usually printed as 'phantasy'. Sigmund Freud (ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt born Sigismund Shlomo Freud (May 6 1856 &ndash September 23 1939 was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded This should be strongly contrasted with delusion. A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed False Belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false fanciful or derived from Deception

Literary references

An adult who constantly seems to be living in a fantasy world may be considered a Walter Mitty character. Walter Mitty is a Fictional character in James Thurber 's short story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty " first published in The New Yorker


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