retrospective fantasy, n.All

Retrospective fantasy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what every teller of the past, even a historian, puts back into it from later times, falsifying the picture.

Retrospective fantasy (n.) projects ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠late impressions back into childhood and sexualizes them after the event, a process Freud claims he was first to recognize.

Retrospective fantasy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the rival view that infantile scenes are imaginative products of adult life, a regressive flight from present tasks rather than real memories.