The fantasy is not reduced to the more or less avowed thoughts that we all have on a daily basis. Minute Doctor reveals to you what is hidden behind this word.
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The word fantasy comes from the Greek “phantasma”, which means “ghost”. A fantasy is first of all an illusion.
An image that allows you to escape reality.
Erotic fantasies to boost the libido
Your fantasy may be an affair at your workplace, a night at a swingers club, or a romantic encounter in public. These are the most common erotic fantasies according to various studies on the subject.
For psychologists, these fantasies are healthy and even essential to balance. Because they stimulate the libido even if they are never realized.
The first to have spoken about it was Sigmund Freud, in the 19th century. The fantasy is even a major concept of his new discipline, psychoanalysis.
Oedipus the best known of fantasies
According to him, fantasy is the manifestation of desires repressed in the unconscious. Freud goes even further. For him, there would exist “originary” fantasies, that is to say fantasies common to each member of a society.
The most famous of them is the famous Oedipus complex, named after this unfortunate man who kills his father and marries his mother without knowing that he is their son.
For Freud, this is the fantasy common to all children. They would like to marry the parent of the opposite sex and discard the one of the same sex.
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