Talk:Fantasy (psychology)

message: Wow, this article could really see some improvement. For example covering the evolution of fantasy in people (as they e.g move into childhood), the relation of fantasy to imagination, biological and evolutionary reasons, etc. How fantasy have influenced culture, and so on. It's dwarfed by the article Fantasy about the genre with the same name, despite that genre being based in this psychological meaning. I'll try to remember to get back to this one if I find more time myself. :-) OK, this comment is nearing the article size now, so I'll stop here. ;-) -- Northgrove 11:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, on closer thought, some of these ideas may be better suited for the Imagination article, although I'd still like to see expansion on the concept of fantasy itself. -- Northgrove 12:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

message: Is it just me or does the statement "Sexually speaking, men in particular[...]" imply that men and pretty much only men are susceptible to having fantasies of a sexual nature?  I realize that it includes "in particular," but it then goes on to explain that women are more likely to have these inspirational fantasies about succeeding in whatever they do (which is totally fine), and seems to drop the fact that both genders are perfectly capable to have sexual fantasies (whether or not they want to).  Either gender can have fantasies of either sort.  I, myself, as a male, can have very success-oriented fantasies inspired by many things. As with ANY fallible human, of course, I cannot stop sexual thoughts from coming, but I have the ability to stop them from affecting my life. 
I, in no way, intend for this to appear sexist or anything of the sort. I am not accusing the writer(s) to be sexist. I am merely making an observation.
Thanks, Venku Tur'Mukan (talk) 14:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue 

message: I think this page could be cleaned up a bit... I'm not saying it has bad information, however. I'm finding a lot of inconsistencies within the page in terms of quatation formatting. The quotes switch between '...' and "..."
"..." would likely be preferred by many readers, but I understand that '...' was common in many books, especially older ones. I have no idea if this is a region-by-region thing, but at least stay consistent. Venku Tur'Mukan (talk) 16:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up? 

message: Definitely needs clean-up. Citations and references are not clear, there are inconsistencies etc. I'll try to do some clean up, as of now I just raised some in the page. Will fix them if noone else will. :) 81.175.223.151 (talk) 09:11, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Agreed

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A link for the book by Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (which doesn´t actually have page) goes here. StrongALPHA (talk) 09:55, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A redirect that doesn´t make sense can someone please do something about it 

message: Hello! After evaluating this article, I have decided to work on the following: looking for sources to support the "Freud and fantasy" section, and adding more information to the underdeveloped sections "Narcissistic personality disorder" and "Schizophrenia". I do suspect that if I am not able to do much with what is presented already in those sections, I may revise what is already written. --Arise and Shine (talk) 06:36, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Edits