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Fantasy thinking (n.) lets thoughts float, sink or rise according to their specific gravity — effortless, image piling on image, arranging things not as they are but as one would like them.
Fantasy thinking (n.) was branded autistic and infantile only because doctors were the first to look at it — a perfectly normal process brought dangerously close to the pathological.
Fantasy thinking (n.) or dream-thinking is a phylogenetically older mode of thought: dreams never say "I am doing wrong" abstractly, but always in parable — like primitive speech, ancient literature, and Plato.