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  • In fact, the German word "Phantasie" signifies both the process and results of imagination, and the only prize that Freud received in his lifetime was the Goethe

    Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

  • "Phantasie," while that of the northern poets was "Gemüth," and that the attempt to revive the spirit of Guarini, Cervantes, and their kind was not well taken.

    Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei Allen Wilson Porterfield

  • Phantasie from Einbildungskraft in ways useful for understanding Shelley and her difference from other English romantic writers: less in the philosophical sense of the faculty of imagining

    Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008

  • Ich würde mich auf jeden Fall sehr freuen, mal wieder etwas von Macabros zu sehen - Grasmück hat wohl die plastischste Phantasie, die man auf dem Groschenheftsektor finden kann.

    Please let me introduce….. Macabros 2005

  • (Phantasie), the former referring to human awareness and the latter, the higher power, to “divine infusion.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • Phantasie, for Jaspers, ist die positive Bedingung für die Verwirklichung der

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • In modern times “metaphysics” has come to mean very different things to different writers; while throughout its long history the term “imagination” (φαντασία, imaginatio, immaginazione, Phantasie, Einbildungs - kraft, etc.) has rarely retained for long one simple, easily identifiable use.

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • Karl Schefold, “Zur Frage der künstler - ischen Phantasie,” Antike Kunst, 4, No. 2 (1961), 79.

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • That is the beginning of all things; der Geist, die Phantasie.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • B. eine Musikalische Phantasie, die harmonischen Folgen einer Aeolsharfe, die Natur selbst.

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

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