Fantasy and the Process of Fantasy-Building
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Revisiting Freud’s metapsychology regarding unconscious fantasy, and taking stock of Michel de M’Uzan’s exemplary study of the problem of unconscious affect, the author contends that, strictly speaking, no more than there are truly unconscious affects, there are no unconscious fantasies. Instead, the author describes a process of fantasy-building, briefly illustrated with clinical material and put to the test of other psychoanalytic conceptualizations such as primal fantasies, après-coup , psychosomatic theory and the masochistic fantasy in Freud’s “A child is being beaten.”
Author: Dominique Scarfone
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,650
OpenAlex ID: W4414618610