In psychoanalysis, fantasy is the imaginary staging of an unconscious desire. Freud, Sigmund’s rejection of his own seduction theory hinged on his realization of the importance fantasy plays in the psychic life of the subject. What he realized is that it is enough for a particular act to be fantasized about for it to be significant to a particular subject, and that it doesn’t have to have actually taken place. Lacan, Jacques makes fantasy the central concept in his account of psychoanalysis, but gives it another role to play. Whereas Freud saw fantasy as being in some sense in conflict with reality, for Lacan, fantasy is at once a defence against reality and a necessary support for reality. This latter proposition is fundamental to the work of Lacanian psychoanalyst Žižek, Slavoj.