Poe's tales are collective fantasy reduced to essence and paradigm.

A few weeks later, the muddy spectacle of Woodstock gave a temporary reprieve to the waning collective fantasy of peace and love.

After a period of collective utopian fantasy it was a time for facing complicated, painful realities.

They bemoan the books' collective fantasy of motherhood, their concentration on the woes of young, well-off mothers.

A member remarked that even normally realistic followers were swayed by the collective fantasies.

Our collective fantasy was to sell vacuum cleaners.

It took many hands to weave a collective fantasy.

Nuclear policymaking became almost a collective technocratic fantasy, or at least was driven by fantasy:

These are collective fantasies and are linked to popular taste for images that transcend the everyday.