Social and Psychic: A Phantasmatic Scene

Written as a follow-on to Sololoquio per Due, in Tre Parti: this piece was inspired by an excerpt from Judith Butler that I happened to hear randomly on youtube:

Fantasy, then, is not just a creation of the mind, a subliminal reverie, but an organization of desire and anxiety that follows certain structural and organizational rules, drawing on both unconscious and conscious material. I would suggest that the organization or syntax of dreams and fantasy is at once social and psychic. Although Laplanche was interested in infancy and the formation of an original fantasy, I am asking whether we can appropriate some aspects of his view to understand anti-gender as a phantasmatic scene.

Butler, Judith. Who's Afraid of Gender? (p. 13). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.