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    1) While some see fantasy as escapist and unproductive, others argue that it can build problem-solving skills by allowing readers to imagine different scenarios and solutions without real risk. 2) Fantasy provides both escape and a means to balance the rational and intuitive parts of the mind, maintaining mental equilibrium. 3) Like dreaming, fantasy refreshes the mind and prevents mental deterioration, making it important for mental well-being especially in young adults as it provides temporary escape and increases imagination.

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    1) While some see fantasy as escapist and unproductive, others argue that it can build problem-solving skills by allowing readers to imagine different scenarios and solutions without real risk. 2) Fantasy provides both escape and a means to balance the rational and intuitive parts of the mind, maintaining mental equilibrium. 3) Like dreaming, fantasy refreshes the mind and prevents mental deterioration, making it important for mental well-being especially in young adults as it provides temporary escape and increases imagination.

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    1) While some see fantasy as escapist and unproductive, others argue that it can build problem-solving skills by allowing readers to imagine different scenarios and solutions without real risk. 2) Fantasy provides both escape and a means to balance the rational and intuitive parts of the mind, maintaining mental equilibrium. 3) Like dreaming, fantasy refreshes the mind and prevents mental deterioration, making it important for mental well-being especially in young adults as it provides temporary escape and increases imagination.

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    escape, or break from the demands of reality; it can

    The Psychology of Fantasy


    actually be productive in building problem-solving
    The general tone of novels is so literal that when the skills. It can encourage readers to imagine
    fantastic is introduced it produces a special effect:
    themselves in different roles and scenarios, pursuing
    some readers are thrilled, others choked off: it
    demands an additional adjustment because of the alternate decisions and actions without experiencing
    oddness of its method or subject matter — like a any real risk. By living vicariously through fantasy
    sideshow in an exhibition where you have to pay
    sixpence as well as the original fee. characters, readers can expand on their techniques
    for solving personal problems.
    E.M. Forster, Aspects ofthe Novel (New York:
    Harcourt, Brace & World, 1954), 160.
    The ability to imagine is a mechanism for survival;

    Fantasy literature offers the reader much of what fantasizing is a human activity essential to creating a
    balance in one's life. As Lloyd Alexander explains,
    general fiction offers — escape and adventure — but
    "paradox and polarity are inherent in the very
    it goes far beyond the familiar realm of belief. It
    structure ofthe brain . . . one hemisphere is rational,
    allows us to enter a world of "contrasts and
    cognitive, analytical; the other, non-rational,
    opposites", to break away from the entrapment of
    nonverbal, intuitive. One half an intellectual; the other
    realism. While some may consider this genre to be
    a visionary. We need both to maintain equilibrium
    of little importance or value to the psychological
    health of the reader, many may argue that it is integral in this universe within our heads". Reading fantasy
    can therefore produce this mental balancing effect.
    to a healthy state of mind.

    Critics ofthe fantasy genre believe that indulging in Dreaming is another human survival mechanism,
    proven essential to mental health by scientific studies.
    fantasy stories can shift a person's focus to less
    productive matters. They argue that it tempts Entering a dream state on a regular basis refreshes

    readers into avoiding the realities of life by putting the mind in order to cope with the demands of a
    new day. In dream deprivation experiments, where
    off real-world responsibilities and evading serious
    subjects are deprived of REM sleep (i.e., dream-
    personal issues. To these people, fantasy equates
    stage sleep) mental deterioration occurs rapidly.
    to useless daydreaming and nostalgia. "In fact, they
    Without dreams, without fantasy, we become shells
    conclude, fantasy is evasive, escapist, and
    counterproductive" (Pamela S. Gates). of our potential selves.

    Fantasy is therefore important to mental well being,


    Several people oppose these beliefs. While they
    particularly for the young adult reader. It provides
    acknowledge that fantasy may encourage the evasion
    a momentary escape, a release. It helps increase
    of real-life problems, they argue that the value of
    the potential of ones' imagination to solve life's
    the genre cannot be overlooked. Fantasy, they
    problems. It can help resolve emotional conflicts
    propose, provides not only a temporary, healthy
    and alleviate teen anxieties.

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    References

    Gates, Pamela S. Fantasy Literature for Children


    and Young Adults. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow
    Press, 2003.
    Irwin, W. R. The Game of the Impossible: A
    Rhetoric ofFantasy. Chicago: University of
    Illinois Press, 1976.
    Tymn, Marshall B., Kenneth J. Zahorski, and
    Robert H. Boyer. Fantasy Literature: A Core
    Collection and Reference Guide. New York:
    R.R. Bowker Company, 1979.

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