phantasy is an artifact produced by British translations of Freud. posto facto folks tried to reify a distinction to mean that phantasy was a psychoanalytic sense of the word, fantasy a common sense. No real difference, and it parallels the insertion of ego for ich in creating confusion in US. Scott Andrew Hutchins wrote: > What is the difference between fantasy and phantasy? I see many > commentators on film write of "phantasies" and L. Frank Baum uses it in > the subtitle of one of his plays, but I have never found a definition or > reason for the alternate spelling. > > Scott > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]