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Fantasy

Defining fantasy What is fantasy?Portals and entry-points Desire and loss Magic or illusion?Animation: the case of Toy Story 3 NOTES A historical overview of fantasy: From Ovid to Game Boy ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’The One Thousand and One Nights The Fairy Queen Dance, music and toys Early cinema and special effects Fantasy television and the hand-held screen NOTE Animal fantasy for children Mickey Mouse Fantasy animals as moral instructors Animal tricksters Fantasy bears Hedgerow fantasy Farmyard and field fantasy NOTES Fantasy quests The epic quest Quests for self-knowledge and social knowledge Death and the shadow-self Totemic objects Monsters NOTES Fantasy and politics Problematic politics in classic children’s fantasy Comics and global animosity Political dystopias I: Nineteen Eighty-Four and ‘Escape from Spiderhead’Political dystopias II: The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake The feminist utopia NOTES Fantasy and the erotic Fantasy versus sexual fantasy Victorian erotic fantasy Twentieth-century pornotopias of death Woman-centred desire Carnivorous sexual fantasy

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Dreams, Unconscious Fantasies and Epigenetics
Tamara Fischmann Abstract Fischmann presents an interdisciplinary combination of psychoanalysis and neuroscience, in which she focuses on different approaches towards dreams, the dreaming mind, and the brain from a psychoanalytical, neuropsychoanalytical and neurobiological stance. The current FRED study...
(A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences)
Dreams and Unconscious Fantasies
Another field closely related to dreams is that of unconscious fantasies. Unconscious fantasies have long been associated with the notion of a dynamic unconscious. Both are only accessible via their derivatives and require inference from manifest evidence just like in dreams, in which one is able...
(A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences)
Forced sex fantasies
“Rape” fantasies are extremely common for women. You’re not weird for wanting it. It has nothing to do with an actual desire to be raped or a sign of mental illness. There’s a push to relabel “rape” fantasies as “forced sex” fantasies because that’s what they really are. It has nothing...
(The Muslimah Sex Manual: A Halal Guide to Mind Blowing Sex)
“The foot-binding of Chinese women” answered the Western fantasies about China as a barbaric and backward other
When the Western powers forced open the closed door of China with their advanced modern weapons, they were not only exposed to the actual condition of existence of a mysterious oriental nation but also to its intellectual and cultural traditions. That “virtually invisible pair of small feet” became...
(China in Symbolic Communication)
Fantasy
Stepfamily members bring a host of fantasies, wishes, and unrealistic expectations to the beginning of the stepfamily. Some of these are based on previous family experiences, some are due to a lack of information about stepfamilies, and some are based on cultural ideals, but the goals seem to be to ease...
(Stepfamily Relationships: Development, Dynamics, and Interventions)
The transmission fantasy
While the encounter with disability represents a present traumatic experience, it also provides an opportunity for revelations on past traumas with which it will connect up, that it will bring back into one's memory, awaken, and revive. The present trauma produces a reinvestment of past traumatic experiences,...
(The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches)
The work of guilt and shame: the fantasy of guilt and the effects of shame
Guilt and the fantasy of guilt: subjectivation of the trauma While the fantasy of transmission has an effect of appropriation and subjectivation of the traumatic event, another fantasy also has that effect and that function: this involves what I have termed the fantasy of guilt. The encounter...
(The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches)
Memory and the Fantasy of Its Loss
In the poems of this generation, we find a great anxiety to decipher memory, simultaneously accompanied by the impossibility of approaching the past. In Marques de Armas’s “Leda,” the wife of Tyndareus and lover of Zeus also represents the mysterious and desired city of Havana before which others...
(Minima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba)
Resistance/Collusion with Masculinist-Capitalist Fantasies? Japanese and Filipino Women in the Cyber-Terrain
Jeane C. Peracullo Th,s chapter focuses on women’s bodies as produced, reproduced, and re-colonized in cyberspace.1 Violence as manifested in geographical space is present even in cyberspace inasmuch as the stakeholders, players, perpetrators and victims are humans. Violence takes many forms...
(Feminist Cyberethics in Asia: Religious Discourses on Human Connectivity)
Power and Resistance or Acquiescence to Masculinist Fantasies?
Japanese feminists have responded to the hypersexuality of female bodies in manga. In the 1970s up to the mid-1990s, Japanese feminists had criticized mainstream media's lack of gender sensitivity as evident in pornography and rampant hypersexualization of girls and women on broadcast and in the print...
(Feminist Cyberethics in Asia: Religious Discourses on Human Connectivity)