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This book by Michèle Perron-Borelli, who is well known in France for her publications on the ‘dynamics’ of fantasy, is a robust theoretical construction that rests on the firmest of Freudian foundations. Its author here undertakes a comprehensive exploration of the status and organising role of fantasy activity in the formation of the psyche, and in so doing puts forward a number of new hypotheses.
Fantasy of course occupies a central position in both the theory and the practice of psychoanalysis, as the author reminds us in her opening