Freud & Oscar Wilde share the same opinion that life and fantasy are different. (Freud, p. xxii) What a patient reveals in their fantasy desires, tell more about them than when they talk about their routine life.
Oscar Wilde wrote in his “Preface to Dorian Gray”, that life and literature are different. Characters can do and say anything in literature which is invented fantasy, whereas in real life, everyone is bound by boundaries of law, social acceptance, cultural traditions, morality and etc.
Reference
Freud, S. (2006). The Psychology of Love. Penguin Classics: Great Britain.
