Daydreams and the Function of Fantasy (Hardcover)

We all daydream and yet the purpose of waking fantasy, or episodes of conscious and private fiction-making, has never been really clarified. Instead, mainstream psychology characterises the daydream as task-distracted mind wandering, which does little to explain why people engage in creating fictions of often unrealizable proportions regularly for themselves, at times incidentally and at other times deliberately. This work overturns, re-organises and redefines established concepts of the role of waking fantasy in human life. It shows how the purpose of all fantasy is to transform mood states into specific emotional responses, a feature apparent in daydreams, sexual fantasies and even unconscious fantasy structures. Understanding how feeling states motivate fantasy explains why we daydream at all, how repetitive daydreams and sexual fantasies develop to elicit reliable emotional reactions, and even how we at times use and appropriate published or released fictional works to propagate our own fantasies. Along the way, the work explores the relation of waking fantasy to some of our buying practices, attachments to objects in early childhood, preferred genres of fiction and cultural phenomena such as the worship of celebrities.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	M. Regis
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	273
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-30076-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Sleep & dreams Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	1-137-30076-0
Barcode:	9781137300768

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