The channel seems to have a mandate to uplift the national mood, to appeal to the fantasy of second chances and sexy opportunities.
Since then, even as crime has declined, our culture at large, fuelled by fantasies of first-person force, has become ever more violent.
Minkyu Lee's "Adam and Dog" is a bland, whimsical fantasy of the first meeting of man and dog in the Garden of Eden.
Initially appearing in 1966, the original "Star Trek" is a utopian fantasy of the first order, a vision of the enlightened future in which whites, blacks, Asians and one poker-faced Vulcan are united by their exploratory mission ("to boldly go"), a prime directive (no intervention) and the occasional dust-up.
Thanks to such predictable resistance, the drug-induced imperial dreamscape of the Busheviks would prove a fantasy of the first order, even if, in that post-9/11 moment, it passed for bedrock (neo)realism.
That a few thousand troops could somehow reverse the present situation and ensure progress toward victory is obviously a fantasy of the first order, one that barely papers over the reality of these last years: that Washington has been losing the war in Afghanistan and will continue to do so, no matter how it fiddles with troop levels.
The fantasy of a second-half recovery is looking increasingly doubtful.
If you do you will be wrong, and you will also help the Republicans fulfill their unthinkable fantasy of a third Bush term.
Genesis gives no hint of changeful weathers in Eden, and writers from the Anglo-Saxon poet of The Phoenix onwards have basked in fantasies of that first perfect climate.
It is as if the translation itself were enacting a fantasy of analysis: the first edition is the repressed memory that needs to be recovered.
