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Having in Chapter 1 outlined the groundwork laid by Freud, I now turn my attention to what I find to be a largely more persuasive and comprehensive account of the nature of the ontological constellation between fantasy, reality, the unconscious, action and the collective, rooted in the work of Melanie Klein. In this chapter I provide an account of Klein’s contribution to psychoanalytic understanding of phantasy before turning my attention to how this has been taken up in social theory.
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Ormrod, J.S. (2014). Fantasy in Kleinian Theory. In: Fantasy and Social Movements. Studies in the Psychosocial Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348173_3
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