Creating an alter ego for fantasy-work can be used for good and can be positive. It can also be used for bad. Freud felt this way as well. He felt that alter egos were connected to narcissism in childhood. There is a dark component to alter egos and that’s why fantasy-work should be in dialogue with reality.

Fantasy-work is your responsibility. If you don’t advocate for your own fantasy you will be living inside someone else’s.

fantasy is apart of your arsenal and your strategy

to be a fantasist you must be willing to suspend your disbelief and be comfortable with the elusiveness of self. I was speaking specifically to relinquishing control of an identity fixation.

here has been a large amount of discourse around the rise of anti-intellectualism. I don’t see any growing concerns over the rise of anti-imagination. I’m going to be the first to say that we are in an age of anti-imagination . Where anti-intellectualism is running rampant so is the lack of imagination and where we see no refreshing future it only... See more