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While many patients need to learn to fantasize in order to make progress in analysis, some patients' fantasies actually serve as resistance to treatment. Two cases illustrate the use of fantasy as resistance and the replacement of fantasy with meaningful language and feeling. In both cases, the resolution of the resistances acted out by fantasy was necessary in order to move the analysis forward.