ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the notion of unconscious fantasy. The only available reconstruction of the unconscious inscription is the interpretation and it is precisely the epistemological priority given by the ego to the interpretation which causes the inscription to vanish beyond its scope. Sigmund Freud describes the fantasy function as a kind of thinking which, by dint of its neglect of the demands of reality, can circumvent the limitations of the reality principle. The ability of fantasy to disregard the demands of "reality" fuses with the inherent tendency of the sexual drive to stick with earlier forms of satisfaction. Analytical work often meets with difficulties in ascertaining exactly who is beating the child of the manifest fantasy. Fantasy is an experience which possesses the same ability as any "real" event to inscribe itself in the form of memory traces and carry all the same sense of urgency, as designated by Freud in his concept of psychical reality.
