restitutive fantasy

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Noun

restitutive fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural restitutive fantasies)

(psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally.
- 1963, Jesse E. Gordon, Personality and behavior (page 158)
  In restitutive fantasy, the person imagines some goal object which is not present in the environment: the fantasy thus serves as a replacement for the absent real object. The lonely child imagines his parents when they are away from him.
- 1985, Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats (page 256)
  If Keats cannot, in restitutive fantasy, resurrect "the teeming autumn, big with rich increase," his imagination will, in a second attempt, rise to another response in an effort to deny the obdurate blankness of the stubble-plains […]
- 2007, Leon Wurmser, Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me
  The patient's aim is therefore that the analyst replace a missing part; it is not the process of self-exploration. The enactment of such a restitutive fantasy serves the defense against the depressive affect about loss: the defense against mourning.
- 2013, Susan Miller, Shame in Context (page 116)
  Jeremy's father gave him a leg up into the restitutive fantasy of specialness by providing the adoption story of the “chosen” and “special” child.

单词	restitutive fantasy
释义	restitutive fantasy English Noun restitutive fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural restitutive fantasies) (psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally. 1963, Jesse E. Gordon, Personality and behavior (page 158) In restitutive fantasy, the person imagines some goal object which is not present in the environment: the fantasy thus serves as a replacement for the absent real object. The lonely child imagines his parents when they are away from him. 1985, Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats (page 256) If Keats cannot, in restitutive fantasy, resurrect "the teeming autumn, big with rich increase," his imagination will, in a second attempt, rise to another response in an effort to deny the obdurate blankness of the stubble-plains […] 2007, Leon Wurmser, Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me The patient's aim is therefore that the analyst replace a missing part; it is not the process of self-exploration. The enactment of such a restitutive fantasy serves the defense against the depressive affect about loss: the defense against mourning. 2013, Susan Miller, Shame in Context (page 116) Jeremy's father gave him a leg up into the restitutive fantasy of specialness by providing the adoption story of the “chosen” and “special” child.
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