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The Racist Fantasy

Why Theory

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The Importance of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis

Fantasy is an enjoyment delivery system. It does it by creating elevating an obstacle sorry elevating an object of desire through the use of an obstacle. The obstacle has a higher value and importance in the fantasy so this is what makes this bizarre thing that that your racism can attack someone who you think is actually elevated above you. lynching is probably the greatest act of racism in the sense that it so perfectly plays out the fantasy right like it because not only do you kill the person you castrate them and you really attack the sexual organ that was seen as the threat.

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