Fantasy is vital for the human mind. It begins as the psychological process by which a child learns to fill the gaps between knowledge, reality and experience, and becomes a vital adult coping mechanism. Most importantly, fantasy isn't just for children. Becoming a teenager, rites of passage, facing failure and defeat, coming to terms with betrayal and disappointment - all the stuff of emerging adult life also has to be faced and coped with. Psychoanalysis and counselling have their place, but the most important tool we as humans have to tackle reality, is the creation of metaphor - the allegorical story.
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