Cutting-edge science often seems to stir irrational fantasies.
Nevertheless, something hot runs through them: urgent emotions and irrational fantasies.
Didn't her small, irrational gesture of collecting little pinecones in a basket mirror the irrational fantasies we construct in anticipation of our own parties?
Not the empty Napoleon bent on power, then, but the contradictory and tormented Napoleon, playing out his internal turmoil, enacting the role of Jung's "sacrificial victim" and indulging in irrational fantasies like conquering the East.
Where would the tech world be without culture, without Star Trek or Star Wars, for example, the irrational fantasies that inspire exploration?
And then a badly-paid worker slaving over a flower bed asks you for a drink of your water, and you realise you're not really in Burma at all – you're walking around the fantasy of an irrational megalomaniac.
Anyone can become an extremist at any moment as everyone becomes increasingly exposed to all kinds of irrational influences, raw emotions, archaic energies, and disturbing fantasies.
As shown in Fig. 1, the two classes were significantly different in terms of peculiar and idiosyncratic fears and phobias, behavioural disorganisation, disordered and irrational thoughts, perplexity and overvalued paranoid ideas and fantasies.
For the colonial peoples are always the imperial male's fantasy of the perfect female, passive, receptive, intuitive, irrational, and in need of domination.
If I want to cheer up, I will crack open one of the original Five escapades, and imagine myself in Blyton's glorious Britain: a fantasy world filled with boundless British pride and an irrational fear of foreigners – oh, wait.
