“…Reading as gateway to the world of fantasies has been challenged by powerful audiovisual media. …”

“…Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. …”

“…They put together a theory of psychopathology based on two basic notions: conflicts between acceptable and unacceptable impulses (ideas, desires, fantasies, etc.), and the repression of the unacceptable impulses causing the formation of symptoms. …”

“…Style and approach The book uses a fantasy game theme as a medium to explain various topics. …”

“…Von allen Tieren sprechen Säugetiere die Fantasie am meisten an. Die Niedlichkeit eines Füchschens, die Urkraft von einem Wisent, das Lächeln eines Seehunds oder die Perlaugen einer Maus sind unwiderstehliche Fotomotive. …”

“…Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction. …”

“…Im Dorf sind sie als «Américains» Gegenstand ambivalenten Interesses – und beeindrucken den Autor als Kind nachhaltig.Ein liebevoller, eindringlicher Text, der die großen Träume und Abenteuer einer besonderen Generation erzählt – und immer wieder Raum für die Frage lässt, mit wie viel Fantasie jene Anekdoten gespickt waren, die sie bis zuletzt umrankten --…”

“…Scopo di questo libro è indagare gli aspetti taciuti e dimostrare come molti testi siano stati fabbricati su leggende, fantasie e fake-news. Il lavoro svolto si basa sulla ricerca e rielaborazione di documenti mai presi in considerazione e soprattutto sulla verifica di quelli impiegati per note pubblicazioni…”

“…The term "orientalism", as it is understood in the English-speaking world, has known a rather paradoxical reversal of meaning, since after having designated the science of all those who tried to know the Orient through its languages ​​and its texts former (linguists, translators, geographers or historians), he gradually came to designate the general perception of the East by the West, a perception fatally tinged by the fantasies projected onto an unrecognized Other, as has amply shown postcolonial studies. …”

“…In a Jewish echo of anthropological skepticism, the poem emphasizes the plurality and relativity of the human condition while praising the communicative powers of pleasure, fantasy, and multifarious Eros…”

“…Egal, ob Sie eine kurze Städtereise nach Berlin unternehmen, einen Urlaub in Florida machen oder die lang ersehnte Reise nach Japan – Sie wollen mit beeindruckenden Fotos nach Hause kommen, um Ihre Erlebnisse mit Ihrer Familie und Ihren Freunden teilen zu können.Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie mit Ihren Fotos die Fantasie der Betrachter ansprechen und Ihre Reiseeindrücke so wiedergeben, wie Sie sie erfahren haben. …”

“…There were no resident Jews in Scandinavia before the modern period, yet as this book shows ideas and fantasies about them appear to have been widespread and an integral part of life and culture in the medieval North. …”

“…Author Maria Cristina Quintero explores how playwrights such as Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Antonio Coello, and Francisco Bances Cadamo - taking inspiration from legend, myth, and history - repeatedly staged fantasies of feminine rule, at a time when there was a concerted effort to contain women's visibility and agency in the public sphere. …”

“…"For centuries, China's export arts--jade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinema--have fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. …”

“…Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities. Rich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in this book with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach on the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. …”

“…., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense" in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations); unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions, odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped); suspiciousness or paranoid ideation; inappropriate or constricted affect; behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar; lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives; and excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self…”

“…., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or 'sixth sense' in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations); unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions, odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped); suspiciousness or paranoid ideation; inappropriate or constricted affect; behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar; lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives; and excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self…”

“…They, and the autobiographical introduction to the whole book, create between them a memoir of what it was like to be a committed fan, from teenage years, and also an academic struggling to find a place, at a time when a declared interest in science fiction and fantasy was the kiss of death for a career in the humanities…”

“…The "uncanny mother" is a primary theme found in Freud's texts involving fantasies of immortality and mothers as instructors in death. …”