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 +[[Image:Carte du tendre.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The ''[[Map of Tendre]]'' (''Carte du Tendre'') is a French map of an [[imaginary country]] called ''[[Tendre]]''. It shows a geography entirely based around the theme of [[love]].]]
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A '''fantasy''' is a situation [[imagination|imagined]] by an individual or group, which does not correspond with [[reality]] but expresses certain [[desire]]s or aims of its creator. Fantasies typically involve situations which are [[impossible]] (such as the existence of magic powers) or highly unlikely (such as world peace). Fantasies can also be [[sexual fantasy|sexual]] in nature. A '''fantasy''' is a situation [[imagination|imagined]] by an individual or group, which does not correspond with [[reality]] but expresses certain [[desire]]s or aims of its creator. Fantasies typically involve situations which are [[impossible]] (such as the existence of magic powers) or highly unlikely (such as world peace). Fantasies can also be [[sexual fantasy|sexual]] in nature.
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An adult who constantly seems to be living in a fantasy world may be considered a [[Walter Mitty]] character. An adult who constantly seems to be living in a fantasy world may be considered a [[Walter Mitty]] character.
==See also== ==See also==
 +*''[[Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming]]''
 +*[[Emotion and memory]]
*[[Escapism]] *[[Escapism]]
 +*[[Family romance]]
 +*[[Fantasy prone personality]]
*[[Object relations theory|Unconscious fantasy]] *[[Object relations theory|Unconscious fantasy]]
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The Map of Tendre (Carte du Tendre) is a French map of an imaginary country called Tendre. It shows a geography entirely based around the theme of love.
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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. Fantasies typically involve situations which are impossible (such as the existence of magic powers) or highly unlikely (such as world peace). Fantasies can also be sexual in nature.

Psychoanalysis

In the theory of psychoanalysis, phantasy is used to describe unconscious desires, fears, drives etc. 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'. This should be strongly contrasted with delusion.

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An adult who constantly seems to be living in a fantasy world may be considered a Walter Mitty character.

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