world, and gains its credentials from desire, it also undermines reality. The fantasy-ridden person has a diminished sense of the objectivity of his world, and of his own agency within it. The habit of pursuing the “realised unreal” veils the really real, blocking out demands and difficulties. In fantasy the object of desire loses the ability to withhold itself. And since gratification through fantasy is without apparent cost, it is endlessly repeated; desire invades the world and cancels the world's demands. The character of the fantasy object, moreover, is entirely dictated by the desire which seeks for it - the object is tailor-made, the perfect dummy, the walking talking Barbie-doll who does what I want since my wanting and her doing are one and the same.