THE TOPIC CHOSEN FOR THIS COLLOQUIUM AFFORDS A GREAT DEAL of latitude. It allows us to discuss fantasy in relation to what is loosely referred to as the "body-mind problem." The initial enthusiasm with which the suggestion was met was, however, quickly tempered by the realization that traps for the unwary littered the road ahead. We had already reached some accord on a working definition of fantasy (Kennedy et al., 1985); but what did we mean by the "body-mind" problem? Were we concerned with the way in which the body representation developed and the part it played in the self representation as a whole? Was our interest in the way in which the somatic pathways, through which excitation was discharged, increasingly gave way to mental channels of release? Was our interest primarily in the ways in which