ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan talks about a series of relations that were meant to differentiate between phantasy, dream, and daydream according to the types of mirror relations—namely, the relations with an imaginary object. Lacan finds in the imaginary nature of the "mirror stage" the primary channelling of the libidinal energy, which will affect all the phantasies to follow. Lucien Freud strongly insists upon exposing this Real, leading Lacan to assume that this insistence could have later driven the Wolf Man to insanity. Freud attributes great significance to the relationship between phantasy and time. Freud structures an unconscious intermediary stage in which this transformation occurred. It is very easy to recognize in this hero what Freud calls "his majesty the ego"—the hero of all daydreams, novels, and romances alike. The term "unconscious phantasy", or phantasme, appears for the first time when in The Interpretation of Dreams Freud speaks about the role of the ego as guardian of sleep.
