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"BOLE TOH?"
The Chhotu Essay
WITHOUT FANTASY, THERE IS NO LIBERTY
BOLE TOH?
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FANTASIES PERVADE OUR WAKING AND SLEEPING LIVES...
sexual fantasies
Imaginary conversations
tragedies
CRASH!!
passing possibilities
brief scenes
recurring thoughts
daydreams
dreams
five act dramas
wet dreams
cyber personalities
alternate realities
fantasy- memories
Films,
art,
poetry,
stories,
music, myths,
record human fantasies over millenia.
This is our internal life - a mixture of two parallel realms of our minds:
fantasy and phantasy.
Bole toh?
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F SE FANTASY, THE AIR WE BREATHE...
We are sometimes aware of what influences our fantasies of desire....
PHALLIC
RADHA & KRISHNA
myths and stories....
IDEAL BEAUTY
"HERO"
DELIVERY
the market and ads...
TOUCH
FUTURE
www.pornOKplease.com
archetypes and symbols...
LOVE
CAREER
desires for ourselves...
our cultures...
Porn and erotica.
And then there are some other fantasies...
whose origins seem
mysterious and confusing
Bole toh, phantasy
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PH SE PHANTASY, AN UNDERGROUND RIVER...
flowing in our unconscious mind,
RIVER OF PHANTASY
a reservoir of our
thoughts, urges,
desires, feelings, and memories...
throbbing images that seem surreal and even forbidden...
But where does this river begin?
Research shows we fantasize even before we are born, when we are little babies
even at this early age our minds contain a great many thoughts and desires, most of which we never share with others, and many of which we do not fully comprehend."
A 2016 book based on surveys of 23,000 men and women about their sexual fantasies.
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TOGETHER, FANTASY AND PHANTASY MAKE US WHO WE ARE...
collective meanings
symbols
myths
societal Traditions
memories
history
feelings
archetypes
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
Identity
experience
PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS
FANTASY
LOVE
SOCIAL IDENTITY caste, class, yonder
PHANTASY
DESIRE
HATE
STEREOTYPES
SEX, RELATIONSHIPS
HOME
ENVY
SOCIALS MEDIA
WORK
FRIENDS
DIARY
PUBLIC LIVES
MEDIA
PERSONAL
PRIVATE LIVES
Who we are is a complex mixture of the internal world of fantasies and external world of experiences, the public and the private constantly mixing with each other, remixing each other.
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FANTASY PULSES THROUGH OUR LIVES
LIKE A REMIX TRACK
TYSM for this darings I would like to thank my fans, you are my inspiration blah blah
sarry babe, I am in love with sorveene else now. bye buge
MARRY ME?
OMG
randem stranger in the metre
Aaahh...
violence
secrets
Incest
infedility
age gap
nonconsensual
dirty
Many times. going inte labes places in our fantasies can give us a lot of pleas ure, along with some shame and guilt
Along with the melodies and dramas of our fantasies, we am I too weird? might sometimes wander
does anyone else think like this?
am I a bad person?
how can I daydream about semeone so oul of my league?
what would people think of me if they knew..
I'm pathetic
Our fantasies make us feel a spectrum of emotions
PLEASURE
EXCITEMENT
AMUSEMENT
SELF DOUBT
GUILT, SHAME
SELF-HATE
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MAYBE, REALITY IS ALSO A TYPE OF FANTASY...
Bole toh?
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
(Seduction of the Minotaur, 1961)
Anais Nin.
Realities may be constructed too, like fantasies
Orientalism was a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, "us") and the strange (Orient, the East, "them").
- Edward Said, (Orientalism, 1978)
The West
The East
Scrolling through our phones, we imagine the realities of others and our own.
THE MALE FANTASY
Lalata, the straight fantasy, lalala
In popular culture
In all theatres near you!
love is always the stuff of fantasy Maybe this is why men have done mast of the theorizing about love.
Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.
- bell hooks (All About Love: New Visions, 1999)
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SO, FANTASY HAS A REALLY IMPORTANT JOB
Bole toh?
FANTASY-CV
SKILLS
Imagination
Transgressing
Hobbies
scandalizing
chilling
sexy fime
-creating
The wise in love. Ah, human creatures! Even your fantasies are teachers.
Geet Govind, 12th-century
Fantasies teach us what gives us pleasure and re veals to us what pleasures we miss in our 'realily
"Fiction can show you a different world.
It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
- Neil Gaiman, author
In fantasies we transgress boundaries and experience ourselves in unlimited ways
From a fantasy of desire we may create a new reality
"Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as dep- rivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness de- manded an alternative innova- tion from me it made me curi- ous, it made me ask, "Is this
- Ocean rough fore and writer
"Overturing hierarchies is a part of human sex- uality. Transgression is a part of what wakes us up and makes us feel sexual"
Susan Block, sex therapist
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Without fantasy, we might be stuck
Where?
In an un-changing so-called 'reality'
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.
to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, [is to let them become al particle in the mass
When we cherish fantasy, we learn to Trust our selves and we cherish the imagination.
(Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1961)
But what if some fantasies are truly evil?
Well, it's not about choosing one It's just keeping the world of fantasy alive so we, and the world can keep changing. fantasy as superior to another.
Carl Jung
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
- Maya Angelou
Bole toh, without fantasy there is no liberty!
ONE MEANING OF LIBERTY IS NO LIBERTY AFTER ALL
