{"title":"Fantasy and the Process of Fantasy-Building.","authors":"Dominique Scarfone","doi":"10.1177/00030651251357821","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.\"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"29 1","pages":"30651251357821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251357821","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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."
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The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is the preeminent North American psychoanalytic scholarly journal in terms of number of subscriptions, frequency of citation in other scholarly works and the preeminence of its authors. Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resouce for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. APsaA member Steven T. Levy, M.D. serves as editor of JAPA. JAPA publishes original articles, research, plenary presentations, panel reports, abstracts, commentaries, editorials and correspondence. In addition, the JAPA Review of Books provides in-depth reviews of recent literature.