"restitutive fantasy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1963, Jesse E. Gordon, Personality and behavior, page 158",
          "text": "In restitutive fantasy, the person imagines some goal object which is not present in the environment: the fantasy thus serves as a replacement for the absent real object. The lonely child imagines his parents when they are away from him.",
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          "ref": "1985, Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats, page 256",
          "text": "If Keats cannot, in restitutive fantasy, resurrect \"the teeming autumn, big with rich increase,\" his imagination will, in a second attempt, rise to another response in an effort to deny the obdurate blankness of the stubble-plains […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Leon Wurmser, Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me",
          "text": "The patient's aim is therefore that the analyst replace a missing part; it is not the process of self-exploration. The enactment of such a restitutive fantasy serves the defense against the depressive affect about loss: the defense against mourning.",
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          "ref": "2013, Susan Miller, Shame in Context, page 116",
          "text": "Jeremy's father gave him a leg up into the restitutive fantasy of specialness by providing the adoption story of the “chosen” and “special” child.",
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        "An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally."
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        "(psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally."
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