(n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
(n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
(n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
(n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(5) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
(6) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
(7) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(8) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
(9) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
(10) Stimuli were circular beams of light projected on screens (Delboef type of illusion).
(11) The director John Hillcoat and I were under no illusions.
(12) When the shaft is shortened and reaches neither of the vertices of the two pairs of wings, a reversed Müller-Lyer illusion is observed: a shaft between inward-pointing wings appears to be longer than a shaft between the outward-pointing wings.
(13) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(14) The subjects were asked to relate dreams, thoughts, or other mental illusions experienced during G-LOC episodes.
(15) While Yarmolenko stayed quiet, Stepanenko left no illusions as to his interpretation.
(16) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
(17) The illusion is of watching a prima ballerina dancing only for you.
(18) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(19) Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of "large" squares on the occurrence of assimilation and contrast in the Baldwin illusion.
(20) It creates a dangerous illusion that simply by reducing sugar intake, one can eradicate obesity.
Phantasy
Definition:
(n.) See Fantasy, and Fancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the help of some clinical examples, it tries to demonstrate that phantasy is itself an active agent, so that the image within the phantasy is brought into effect through a subtle stimulation of the social environment.
(2) The present article in particular focuses on the relaxation exercises, made up of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training elements as well as of phantasy travels, mantras, and periodic music.
(3) This paper explores three areas within the different maternal orientations of the Facilitator and Regulator: conceptualization: conscious beliefs and expectations of motherhood and babies; practice: observable differences in adaptation to pregnancy, labour, birth and early weeks of motherhood, and differential postnatal vulnerability to psychosocial provoking factors; unconscious processes: identifications, phantasies and defences underlying these practices.
(4) The concept of alexithymy, which is controversial in literature, is used in psychoanalytic discussion to identify a manifestation of character which is distinguished by distress and deficiency in the areas of interpersonal interaction, emotionality, and phantasy life.
(5) How often did hopelessness and suicidal phantasies arise?
(6) The author therefore recommends inter alia a ten-wish phantasy game at the first encounter with the child or adolescent irrespective of the reason for presentation by the parents.
(7) The first formulations of the idea of proto-phantasies in Freud's works are as early as his letters to Fliess and the Traumdeutung (1900), where it is stated the hope that the interpretation of dreams can lead to the discovery of innate elements received from ancestors.
(8) This proceeding is called "hermeneutic" because firstly, a part of the whole, for example a symptom, a phantasy or any personal expression is to be understood in the "here and now" of the therapeutic "Sprachspiel" (Wittgenstein).
(9) This paper sets out to show that phantasy does not just inhabit a mental realm within the individual.
(10) The physically abused created representational and phantasy worlds in which were displayed considerable aggression and disorganization; and their themes were concerned with conflict, chaos, and phantasy wish fulfillment.
(11) The technique involves maintained distraction of the patient with some phantasy of his own choice.
(12) On the basis of the freudian notions of "Vorlust" and "Endlust" he comes to the conclusion that the "compensatories" phantasies which are composing the new reality proposed by the creator rejoin the spectator's desirs which vary nevertheless from one person to another.
(13) Taking 24 hours in the life of Freud, the author shows how significant the interplay of dream, day-dream, unconscious phantasy and transference can be in solving scientific problems.
(14) By projecting not only phantasies and impulses but also part of its self the infant becomes capable of understanding and using symbols.
(15) The 'scenic function of the ego' represented in, e.g., certain body movements, sitting-arrangments, and talking-sequences offers the opportunity of a possible access to the often poor phantasy life of the psychosomatic patient, suffering from what we call the Pinocchio syndrome.
(16) In this case, a constant and confidential relation between therapist and child is extremely important and only possible if the therapist attempts to place himself into the magic-animistic phantasies of the psychotic child.
(17) The creative function originates in a patient's attempt to objectify his or her ego in different ways--which involves a phantasy of being re-born in order to love someone and be loved in turn.
(18) The essentials of the creative process the inexhaustible process of the phantasy concerning certain ideas and problems is enlarged in connection with the results of the Giessen Test S and the two above-mentioned entrepreneurs.
(19) It then notes how the term 'phantasy' is still used for such widely differing notions: to indicate the problems that must exist, of what we mean and of how to communicate our ideas, if different people mean such different things by one technical term that is in constant use.
(20) The physically and sexually abused were the most diverse; and although their worlds were representational and phantasy ones displaying considerable aggression, thematic content was conflictual in a quarter of cases but also ranged over all categories except domestic.