ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the contribution of the plot line in the construction of fantasy. Fantasies can often be at war with each other in our heads. The Second World War coincides with a period of intense conflict within the British Psychoanalytical Society. During this time, the Society went to war over key ideas relating to fantasy—even indeed, over how it should be spelled, fantasy versus phantasy. The lynchpin of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams is his understanding that they provide a means of processing disturbing unconscious anxieties from the “day’s residue”. The diminished level of anxiety enables the dreamer to carry on sleeping. There is an interesting relationship between myth and fantasy; the two words are not entirely synonymous. They embody two separate but closely related ideas. The structure of a myth is neither random nor accidental.
