ABSTRACT
Fantasy is a solution created to deal with a complex situation that poses many questions. It enables us to conceptualize the impossible, to integrate what Lacan described as the order of the real. In the face of the real, the child constructs all sorts of fictions. Here is where a fantasy emerges, created from elements of external reality rearranged in accordance with a logic much subtler than one would imagine a priori and leading to all sorts of associations based on perceptions of the external world. It is a fantasy of a loser, a child who fails at everything he tries and will never be up to the challenges he undertakes to meet. A pleasant somatic state will be associated with success, and a somatic state linked to unpleasure will be associated with the self-perception of incompetence.
