What's the difference between phantasm and phantasmal?

Phantasm


Definition:

  • (n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.
  • (n.) A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’d acknowledge that what we see on the proverbial “street” is just a phantasm, just a trick of the eye.
  • (2) b) Concepts related to the most elementary level of intervention in occupational therapy termed as "objective relationship", in other words the construction of the external objective world as opposed to the world of phantasms or magical thought.
  • (3) Our psychopedagogical work with teenagers having serious problems in the school setting led us to set up a clinical approach giving back to thought the ability to link affects and their representations whereas the thought process had seemed exhausted by a never-ending fight to avoid being swallowed up by the primary processes or through representing unbearable phantasms.
  • (4) Psychologically speaking, the phantasm of the "nation" provides scope for the realization of the desire for pre-ambivalent fusion with an object that has rid itself of everything heterogeneous, alien and autonomous.
  • (5) Sebald could have been writing about his own astonishing and enigmatic books: haunted by phantasms who might be archetypes, polymorphous in their form, piebald in their appearance, travelling widely in time if not broadly in space, and inspired by an avidity for the undiscovered.
  • (6) While from a psychoanalytic viewpoint xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been extensively examined, the same can by no means be said of the phantasm of the "nation".
  • (7) Heim's intention in this is to show that (present-day) xenophobia and racism are the products of a phantasm centering around the division of the world into pure and impure.
  • (8) CERVANTES describes in his novel, without the noxa alcohol playing any part though, a state of affairs which is similar to the symptoms of the chronic jealousy-phantasm of the alcoholic who only has in his mind's eye the sheer wish to possess his partner.
  • (9) Inspired by a kind of avidity for the undiscovered, they move along a line where the points of demarcation are those strange manifestations and objects of which one cannot say whether they are among the phantasms generated in our minds from time immemorial.
  • (10) We’ve got used to seeing ads featuring these phantasmically awful, beautiful people sold to us as ideals of living over the decades.
  • (11) The preposterous, patholplastic forms of this jealousy-phantasm make the main figure of the short novel, the old man Carrizales, his absurd, fantastie plans of a hermetical isolation of his wife from the outside-world a reality.

Phantasmal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’d acknowledge that what we see on the proverbial “street” is just a phantasm, just a trick of the eye.
  • (2) b) Concepts related to the most elementary level of intervention in occupational therapy termed as "objective relationship", in other words the construction of the external objective world as opposed to the world of phantasms or magical thought.
  • (3) Our psychopedagogical work with teenagers having serious problems in the school setting led us to set up a clinical approach giving back to thought the ability to link affects and their representations whereas the thought process had seemed exhausted by a never-ending fight to avoid being swallowed up by the primary processes or through representing unbearable phantasms.
  • (4) Psychologically speaking, the phantasm of the "nation" provides scope for the realization of the desire for pre-ambivalent fusion with an object that has rid itself of everything heterogeneous, alien and autonomous.
  • (5) Sebald could have been writing about his own astonishing and enigmatic books: haunted by phantasms who might be archetypes, polymorphous in their form, piebald in their appearance, travelling widely in time if not broadly in space, and inspired by an avidity for the undiscovered.
  • (6) While from a psychoanalytic viewpoint xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been extensively examined, the same can by no means be said of the phantasm of the "nation".
  • (7) Heim's intention in this is to show that (present-day) xenophobia and racism are the products of a phantasm centering around the division of the world into pure and impure.
  • (8) CERVANTES describes in his novel, without the noxa alcohol playing any part though, a state of affairs which is similar to the symptoms of the chronic jealousy-phantasm of the alcoholic who only has in his mind's eye the sheer wish to possess his partner.
  • (9) Inspired by a kind of avidity for the undiscovered, they move along a line where the points of demarcation are those strange manifestations and objects of which one cannot say whether they are among the phantasms generated in our minds from time immemorial.
  • (10) We’ve got used to seeing ads featuring these phantasmically awful, beautiful people sold to us as ideals of living over the decades.
  • (11) The preposterous, patholplastic forms of this jealousy-phantasm make the main figure of the short novel, the old man Carrizales, his absurd, fantastie plans of a hermetical isolation of his wife from the outside-world a reality.