Fantasy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Young children separate multiple pretend worlds.

30 Aug 2009 Each fictional world that adults create has its own distinct properties, separating it from other fictional worlds. Here we explore whether this separation also exists for young children's pretend game worlds. Studies 1 and 1A set up two ... Read more...

Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving?

30 Jul 2009 In this paper the author explores situations when a patient seems to regress masochistically from a progressive development. She is concerned with moments when the patient's struggle towards oedipal relating may be easily confused with a situation ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Fantasy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Young children separate multiple pretend worlds. 30 Aug 2009
• [Play: the foundation of life. Child play as the motor of personality development] 30 Aug 2009
• Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving? 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view. 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Agave, Salome and the Enchanted Heads: mind and body dialectics in Euripides' and Oscar Wilde's work. 30 Jul 2009
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• Impaired self-reflection in psychiatric disorders among adults: a proposal for the existence of a network of semi independent functions. 14 Jul 2009
• Mother-child play: children with Down syndrome and typical development. 29 Jun 2009
• Little Hans: masculinity foretold. 29 Jun 2009
• [Presentation of nursing in the Japanese manga: the image of a nurse] 29 Jun 2009
• Toward a refined view of aggressive fantasy as a risk factor for aggression: interaction effects involving cognitive and situational variables. 29 Jun 2009
• Romantic fantasies of madness and objections to psychotropic medication. 30 May 2009
• Pan's Labyrinth: a subjective view on childhood fantasies and the nature of evil. 30 May 2009
• How avatar customizability affects children's arousal and subjective presence during junk food-sponsored online video games. 30 May 2009
• A note on Mafia movies. 30 May 2009
• The skin house: a psychoanalytic reading of 3-Iron. 30 May 2009
• On: The mother in the text: metapsychology and fantasy in the work of interpretation. 30 May 2009
• Self-relevance and wishful thinking: facilitation and distortion in source monitoring. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Fantasy'

Definition: An imagined sequence of events or mental images, e.g., daydreams.

Descriptor UI: D005201

Alternative terms: Fantasy; Fantasies; Day Dreams; Day Dream; Dream, Day; Dreams, Day; Daydreams; Daydream;

Tree Number: F01.393.351; F02.463.188.634.507;

Online Note: use FANTASY to search DAY DREAMS 1968-78

History Note: 68; DAY DREAMS was see under FANTASY 1968-78

Technical Notes: no qualif