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The facts and theories of psychoanalysis provide the language, the categories, and the organizing framework that make fantasy,
reality, and oedipality comprehensible. Propositions about instinctual drives and psychic structure lead to the understanding of the impetus, character, contents, and functions of fantasy. Psychoanalytic hypotheses and discoveries of the emergence of differentiated systems, of the general and specific influences of the environment, and of adaptation provide a more precise recognition of what is real. Views of development permit the delineation of a complex sequence of progressive differentiation of both fantasy and reality.