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the demotic actualization of revenge fantasy in the form of support for hyper-reactionary governments
[...] revenge fantasy may ironically be the only way to maintain one's humanity in a situation of relentless dehumanization. To dream of revenge is, in part, to hold fast to the knowledge that what you love has value in a world where it is made worthless. [...]
Hamlet dwells in the realm of fantasy, generating endless prevaricating schemes
we create ourselves and find our way in the world in the abeyance between fantasy and self-actualization, Hamlet's interregnum, we might call it