ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Seven Veils of Fantasy. The first thing to note is that fantasy does not simply realize a desire in a hallucinatory way. The second thing to note is the tension which runs through the very heart of fantasy. The third point is that the question 'Who, where, how is the subject inscribed into the fantasmatic narrative?' is far from obvious. The fourth feature of the fantasy concerns its radically intersubjective character. The fifth point is that the fantasy constitutes the primordial form of narrative, which serves to occult some original deadlock. The sixth feature is that on account of its temporal loop, by means of which the subject is already present at the act of his or her own conception. The seventh and last point is that, contrary to the commonsense notion of fantasizing as indulging in the hallucinatory realization of desires prohibited by the Law, of the intervention of the cut of symbolic castration.
