“Memory of his last days before the war gets slowly mixed with delusions and phantasy.”

“The drive behind the artist's creative activity was unsatisfied libido manifesting itself in escapist phantasy.”

“Why is Mylène more ruled by imagination and phantasy than by logical reasoning?”

“Narcissism and narcissistic identification both involve phantasies of power, omnipotence, mastery and control.”

“What many patients experience is an awakening of emotions which they have never had, rather than a repetition of phantasies from the past.”

“Which cannot be said of Arbus, to the extent in which her photographs are but signifiers of her own phantasies or projections.”