ABSTRACT
Indbildning from the German Einbildung. Its lexical meaning is twofold: first, a capacity to form images of objects that are not presented directly by the senses; and, second, the images or presentations themselves that are the work of this capacity. As a qualification of this second sense it often means a false or harmful conception, a delusion or hallucination.1 Phantasie from the Greek φαντασία, derived from the verb φαντάζειν, meaning to make visible. Like Indbildning, the lexical meaning of Phantasie is twofold: the creative capacity, or the result of the working of the Indbildningskraft, the power of imagination.2
