Both imagination and belief have been the subject of a number of philosophical studies (Hobbes, Bergson, Taine for the first, and especially Kant for the second, for example). Although psychoanalytical literature has not disdained them, they have been generally regarded as unrelated to the analytical situation and have been linked, rather, to creativity and art. Freud himself did not pay much attention to these questions, although he underscored the distinction between perceptions