Presenter: Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP
The term “fantasy” is foundational to psychoanalysis, yet its clinical application varies dramatically across the Atlantic. While all schools share a common Freudian root, the British Kleinian tradition added something additional. It developed the concept of “unconscious phantasy” as a continuous, somatic, and structural undercurrent of the psyche. This talk will explore these divergent definitions, tracing their development from Freud’s central usage to his subsidiary notions of fantasy in his concepts of hallucinatory wish-fulfillment and negation.