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	Fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction.
		This is in contrast to many other forms of fantasy (with the usual exception of fairytale fantasy), such as the works of J. Tolkien, which generally invent their own mythologies and volunteer entirely new pantheons, or attempt to disguise traditional mythology with made-up names.
		Fantasy and science fiction jointly share the subgenre called science fantasy, which has many of the trappings of science fiction, such as space travel and laser guns, but also contains significant elements that bear more resemblance to magic than science or in some other way draw more from fantasy than from science fiction.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fantasy (2737 words)

	Sexual fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In general, however, male sexual fantasies tend to be shorter and imagistic, where female sexual fantasies tend to be longer and have more narrative, as well as a greater focus on the relationships between the characters in the fantasy.
		The essence of a "male" fantasy might be captured in a photographic moment or a seconds-long clip of film; a "female" fantasy might require pages of text to fully capture the key elements.
		Note that, contrary to popular expectation, there is little to no difference between the genders in the transgressive content of their fantasies; a female is just as likely to fantasize about group sex with an entire fraternity as a male is to fantasize about group sex with an entire sorority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sexual_fantasies (348 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three.
		In other cases, most frequently in works of modern fantasy in the high fantasy subgenre, the story might take place in a fantasy world that is wholly different from our own, complete with distinct laws of nature that permit magic.
		Fantasy subgenres are numerous and diverse, frequently overlapping with other forms of speculative fiction in almost every medium in which they're produced.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=Fantasy (837 words)

	Fantasy (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See fantasy for an account of the literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies.
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fantasy_(psychology) (109 words)

	Fantasy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction, usually novels or short stories, though fantasy role-playing games comic books and movies are also popular.
		There is no universally accepted definition of "Fantasy Fiction," and furthermore, the characteristics of the form and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subject of debate among some fans and writers.
		Game companies have published fantasy novels set in their own fictional game universes; the Forgotten Realms and Battletech series are some of the more popular.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Fantasy (653 words)

	Read about Fantasy at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Fantasy and learn about Fantasy here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Obversely, the fantasy genre is often examined as the modern counterpart to mythology.
		historical fantasy, in that many of the stories contain fantastical elements such as talking snakes and world-wide floods, yet concerned what were or are believed to be actual past events in the real world.
		satire in the form of fantasy to parody many of the political and social conventions of its time, and can be considered the earliest work of modern-style fantasy.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Fantasy (2394 words)

	GameDev.net - Games and the Imagination Part II
		Although the content of these fantasies are different, and the personalities of the wannabe hacker and the football fan may be utterly divergent, the basic form of their fantasies and the emotions associated with them are the same.
		According to Jungian psychology, the anima and animus, when they appear in dreams and fantasies are personifications of the relationship of an individual with his or her unconscious.
		It is often symbolised in dreams, fantasies and mythology as a circle, mandala or square; as a quaternity, such as the "four corners of the universe" the four directions or a circle divided into four.
	www.gamedev.net /reference/articles/article2139.asp (7066 words)

	Chapter One: Archetypal Theory and the Construction of Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Western psychology, he claims, is directly influenced by the Christian bias towards monotheism, the Cartesian belief that the world is dead, and a positivistic approach to the psyche that sprang from the ground of psychology's once fertile medical heritage.
		Psychology must be allowed the free reign to reflect upon itself as an open-ended process of ideation.30 Finally, Hillman suggests `dehumanization' as one means of working to remove the humanistic biases intrinsic to psychology.
		Psychology is thus understood to be something that encourages mediocrity.36 First of all, Hillman is highly critical of the developmental strain to which American psychology adheres.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/gthursby/fonda/ch1.html (7656 words)

	Learn more about Fantasy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction encompassing novels, short stories, role-playing games, and movies.
		It is typically set in worlds quite different from the Earth and inhabited by users of magic and mythical creatures such as dragons and unicorns.
		Superhero fantasy - A subgenre usually closely mixed with elements of science fiction as well as other genres.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fa/fantasy.html (527 words)

	GameDev.net -- Games and the Imagination Part II: Approaching the Imagination
		Psychology seems like an obvious framework and it was the first to which I turned, but as I discovered there were fundamental problems in using psychology to interpret the kinds of experiences described in part one.
		On one side of this divide lie the schools of cognitive, behaviourist and biological psychology, their theories and research being limited to the aspects of the mind that can be verified objectively using scientific methods.
		On the other side lie the psychodynamic and humanist psychologies, concerned mainly with personal subjective experience and basing their work on the philosophy of phenomenology, which states that in any investigation we must start with our subjective experience, it being the only viewpoint open to us with any certainty.
	www.gamedev.net /reference/design/features/gati2 (1825 words)

	Fantasy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In (Creative writing of recognized artistic value) literature, fantasy is a form of (Click link for more info and facts about speculative fiction) speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered, or which take place a world wholly different from our own.
		In its broadest sense, fantasy covers works by many authors, from ancient (A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people) myths and (A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events) legends to some recent works embraced by mainstream literary audiences.
		Bangsian fantasy is named for (Click link for more info and facts about John Kendrick Bangs) John Kendrick Bangs, whose late 19th- and early 20th-century (Click link for more info and facts about Associated Shades) Associated Shades series of novels deals with the afterlives of various famous people.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/fantasy.htm (4321 words)

	Psychology and Science
		Psychology attempts to study the phenomenon of the human being and his ever illusive non-physical nature, referred to as the psyche.
		The psychologist who is limited in fantasy will bring these limitations to his client and the client at best will have a chance to trade a dysfunctionally limiting fantasy structure for a more socially accepted limiting one.
		Accepting the process from which ideas are born as a nature human function that is always going to include the fantasy structure of the creator only liberates the imagination from the sterile fantasy of scientific methodology.
	www.arespress.com /AresPages/LiamFolder/Science/fantasysci.html (953 words)

	Imagination and Aesthetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Imagination is driven into the lower exile of sexual fantasy, the upper exile of metaphysical conception, or the outer exile of objective data, none of which reside in the heart and all of which seem heartless, mere instinct, sheer speculation, brute fact.
		As noted, a recent move for archetypal psychology has been to extend its area of consideration to the physical world of "perceptual objects and habitual forms." This move is one that lends a great deal of potential to the future of archetypal psychology.
		In my opinion, the basis of this fantasy of wholeness is found in the belief that we are born unified and our passage through life fragments or destroys that sense of unification--a theological bias in psychology which I suggest has roots in the belief in the theological doctrine of original sin.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/gthursby/fonda/ch2.html (10234 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Category:Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Articles on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Wikimedia Commons Category Psychology
		Psychology is a collection of academic, clinical and industrial disciplines concerned with the explanation and prediction of behavior, thinking, emotions, motivations, relationships, potentials and pathologies.
		International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Category:Psychology (60 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In psychoanalysis, fantasy is regarded as a defense mechanism.
		Vivid fantasies are often a part of childhood, diminishing as a child grows older.
		In the majority of individuals, fantasy is not a cause for concern; as long as the fantasizer is aware that the fantasy is not real, the formation of these mental images may be considered normal.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000130 (270 words)

	The Fountainhead of our Being: Creative Imagination in Jung's Analytical Psychology
		In contrast to other psychologies which characterize themselves as intrapsychic, it does not consider psychic contents to be the product of such ontogenetic processes as introjection and repression—or at least not exclusively so.
		In the light of this remark, it is interesting to note that the same 'disturbances of attention' which Jung, the experimentalist, recognized as indicating the presence of a complex, Jung, the analyst, considered to be the experiential basis of encounter with that central imago of the psyche, which the pious call God.
		And here once again, in striking contrast to other psychologies that characterize themselves as intrapsychic, Jung conceives of the uniqueness of the individual as emerging from a psychic matrix which is essentially discontinuous with the external world.
	www28.brinkster.com /gregmogenson/fountain.htm (3067 words)

	Healing: Psychology's Wound
		The pervasiveness of the medical fantasy of healing in psychology can be traced to the fact that Psychology was born from the medical model in the first place, when Freud and Breuer (medical Doctors) attempted to affect treatments for symptoms which medicine could not provide.
		Patients still go to a psychologist with expectations of being healed and are still caught in thinking of psychology in the medical manner of illness and treatment, that something is wrong and a solution is necessary, that abeyance of symptoms indicates cure of disease.
		Psychology's challenge is to step out of the sickness-healing dynamic altogether, to allow its patients (and therapists) ways of imagining psyche that are not trapped within the narrow bounds of the medical model.
	www.arespress.com /AresPages/Heal/Heal.html (2680 words)

	Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although fantastic lands, time periods, and realms all have their counterparts in mythology and folklore, such as Jotunheim, the "Worlds" of Mesoamerican mythology, and the fairy realm of English folklore, respectively, these similarities are often regarded as largely coincidental in the case of early modern fantasy.
		More generally, dark fantasy may be used as a synonym for supernatural horror, to distinguish horror stories that contain elements of the supernatural from those that do not.
		Washington residents Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, and Gerald Brom are world leaders in the fantasy art industry.
	www.startrekconvention.com /search.php?title=Fantasy (2710 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fantasy play is their ever dependable pathway to knowledge and certainty.
		Fantasy play helps them cope with uncomfortable feelings.
		She share the kids' wonderful conversations in their own words, providing valuable instruction, without lecturing, on the needs and values of children.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226644960 (489 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Addressing the world of the imaginary, the dream, the uncanny, the paranormal, and all forms of speculative fiction, Contours of the Fantastic is a collection of twenty-two essays that were originally presented at the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts at Houston in 1987.
		The final two sections delineate the border between fantasy and reality--in science and in relation to space and time.
		Among the outstanding contributors are Brian Aldiss, novelist, poet, and critic, author of more than two dozen books-- many of which are considered science fiction classics; Vivian Sobchack, science fiction film critic and writer on semiotics and phenomenology; and Nancy Willard, author of prize-winning novels, collected stories, poetry, and children's books.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313266/0313266476.html (404 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Rimban: Star Wars is fantasy, psychology film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most of the movies drawing huge crowds all over the world lately are epic fantasy (Lord of the Rings), science fiction (Star Wars) or classical mythology (Troy) ones.
		These are the guardians of the psyche that he employs when he draws forth the mental resources he needs to give service to humanity.
		And for all those reasons, a comprehensive knowledge of archetypal psychology is necessary for the student of the spiritual path.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2005/05/20/oped/erwin.rimban.html (700 words)

	3D Art Fantasy Surrealism Pictures: modern surrealism art gallery
		Fantasy Art For other definitions of fantasy see fantasy (psychology).
		Definition There is no universally accepted definition of fantasy art fiction, and furthermore, the characteristics of the form and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subject of debate among some fans and writers.
		Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.
	artist-3d.com /02prints3d (1188 words)

	Female Orgasm Physiology - [the, about] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The physiology and psychology of the female orgasm.
		The Female Orgasm Psychology Physiology Fantasy Seymour Fisher "The Female Orgasm Psychology Physiology Fantasy".
		That female orgasms can be reckoned in hundreds - in the most extreme cases - in a single Her orgasms were quite obviously physiological; there was no. Most thorough study of female orgasm.
	femistim.govwebs.com /female_orgasm_physiology.html (209 words)

	There's Something About Harry (Potter)
		So don't worry if your son or daughter was up all night over the weekend as he or she caught up with Harry and the gang, "it's absolutely healthy," says psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman, MD, co-director of the Pacella Parent Child Center in Manhattan.
		"Developing your fantasies is part of life and something like Harry Potter allows you to identify with a fantasy - that's why so many kids are involved in various fantasy games on a computer," Hoffman says.
		For example: "There is something very wise about how these kids handle themselves and what makes it real is that don't always handle themselves perfectly, but they learn from their mistakes," he says.
	my.webmd.com /content/Article/67/80008.htm?pagenumber=2 (500 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - fantasy
		fantasy literature, motion pictures on fantasy themes, psychology and fantasies, quotations
		uses of fantasy in art, Art Nouveau in Germany, Bosch, Hieronymus, Chagall, Marc, Dalí, Salvador, Kahlo, Frida, Klee, Paul, Rackham, Arthur, Rococo...
		Authoritarianism: As for being a General,…, Children: Children...have no use for psychology.…
	encarta.msn.com /fantasy.html (74 words)

	Women, fantasy and ambition!
		Psychology forum home -> Psychology -> Women, fantasy and ambition!
		The Observer Magazine reports research on the link between how women view their boyfriends and career ambition.
		They were also less keen on roles that required being a group leader.
	www.uncommonforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=5662 (190 words)

	Essentia Links - Fantasy
		Artwork Central ~ Kenny and Ruth's large collection of fantasy art and links.
		Elfwood ~ Fantasy artwork and links to many fantasy sources.
		Epilogue ~ A collection of fantasy and sci-fi artists, with a forum.
	www.essentia.com /links/L_fantasy.htm (264 words)

	ACRPFP
		Bryant, R. Fantasy Proneness, Reported Childhood Abuse, and the Relevance of Reported Abuse Onset.
		Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC Rauschenberger, S. L., and Lynn, S. Fantasy Proneness, DSM-III-R Axis I Psychopathology and Dissociation.
		Silva, C. and Kirsch, I. Interpretive Sets, Expectancy, Fantasy Proneness, and Dissociation as Predictors of Hypnotic Response.
	www.paradigmclock.com /biblio/bib8.html (197 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Psychology Adaptation to Absurdity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The authors bring the light of reason to an intractable problem.
		The authors understandably decline to speculate on possible solutions to the problem.
		To find it discussed in a scholarly text which is properly documented is a sublime pleasure.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805812059 (249 words)

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