ABSTRACT
This chapter compares PMA operations to the Jungian concept of the fantasy-thinking mind, and portrays them both, considering certain minor differentiations, as possibly comprising the same mental activity. It exposes this equivalence in their mechanisms by considering how, in the stream of consciousness, a more advantageously developed level of self-agency is what determines whether a-rational and/or strongly affectively charged mental representations are metabolised by the individual in terms of enactment/actualisation [in which one embodies the characteristics of the inner images that are not satisfactorily abstracted] or by applying degrees of cognitive control that think these contents through. It exposes unmediated expressions of PMA (phantasies) as the passive fantasies of the Jungian perspective, and the metaphorical expressions that feed from the way in which PMA signalises to the thoughtful mind the lived intensity of an affective state, assembling in these conceptual constructions the corporeal impressions of the feeling body, as the active fantasies. In this way, it problematises these types of fantasising as differing in manifestation as a result of the emotional detachment that the ego performs in relation to the effects that the core content of their corporeal communication causes in the integrity of the individual’s sense of self.
