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Retreat into fantasy/imagination can be an adaptive coping mechanism. Used propery, it can renew and empower. I think that's how Grant is treating it in the Filth and that's how Virginia uses it in Stray Bullets. Are Ned and Virginia hiding? Are they avoiding the real world? I guess to an extent, but only to an extent because the real world keeps crashing down on them, and hard. But they don't sink, they swim. They are both survivors and I believe they have their imaginations to thank for that.
Redemption is inherent in the act of creative transformation. If any horrible or dull, silly little thing can be transformed into something glorious, we are automatically delivered from the ghastly or mundane into something spectacular. Even a typical case of explossive diarrhea can become an epic exorcism to banish a Fecal Demon. It's all in how you look at it.
Sure, it's all in our heads, and the "reality" still sucks, but if you can dress it up in a better light you have a better chance at survival, or at least happiness and a few laughs. If you get lost in the fantasy, when it becomes indistinguishable from reality, that's when it can be maladaptive and unhealthy. Will Ned/Greg get lost? Is his imagination hurting him more than it is helping? What do you guys think? |
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