" ... analysts all too frequently fall into the error of regarding fantasy as being opposed to reality, as something to be eventually discarded or relegated to a psychic enclave. But fantasy is unreal only insofar as its communication with present actuality is inhibited or severed. To that extent, however, present actuality is unreal too. Perhaps a better word than 'unreal' is 'meaningless'"
from 'Psychoanalysis as an Art' in Papers on Psychoanalysis (1980)
Friday, September 11, 2015
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