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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.
This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by
overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as
being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking
fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional
reactions.
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