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FANTASY: Do We Have Fantasies or Do They Have Us?
Is fantasizing helpful or harmful?
Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the make-believe worlds of online gaming. In passive fantasy we receive products of the unconscious as charged internal images: nighttime dreams, trance states and visions. Passive fantasy transgresses natural law, the limitations of waking life, and cultural restrictions, for in the subterranean realms of psychic experience all is permitted.
Active fantasy allows us to interact with the unconscious and shape our experiences. It lives next door to…
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