A story is a large source of Manifested content of dream material. The Manifested content is the stuff the writer puts down on the page. It’s a very pristine look at a Polaroid of the writers mind, the unconscious. There is a relationship to everything there in that Polaroid, it’s a glimpse into all our reality, yet it has a meaning specific to the person presenting us the picture, the author. The meaning is the writers repressed fantasy revealing itself. The quality of the writing is based on how well it reveals the reader’s tension toward the onslaught of his or her own repressed fantasies. A good writer will fulfill the readers desire to act out his or her own repressed fantasy by allowing him or her to accept themselves more openly through the ingestion of manifested dream content produced by the author.
While creating fiction the author is in an undeniable realm of fantasy, and is able to establish a thread of uncanny parameters without the hardship found in the real world. Freud gives us examples of what is made possible through fiction when he says
The somewhat paradoxical result is that in the fist place a great deal that is not uncanny in fiction would be so if it happened in real life; and in the second place that there are many more means of creating uncanny effects in fiction than there are in real life. (531)
When a person writes fiction they are introducing us to their psyche, our minds are filled with illusions and fantasies that are not to be exposed without a filter to the communal understanding or our society. Stories are a way for an author to reflect upon society without outright mentioning fantasies that may be recognized by others as taboo.
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