Slavoj Zizek on fantasy, reality, and Avatar:
If we subtract fantasy from reality, then reality itself loses its consistency and disintegrates. To choose between "either accepting reality or choosing fantasy" is wrong: if we really want to change or escape our social reality, the first thing to do is change our fantasies that make us fit this reality. Because the hero of Avatar doesn't do this, his subjective position is what Jacques Lacan, with regard to de Sade, called le dupe de son fantasme.
I have to say that with time, I'm starting to believe that fantasies are fantasies for a reason and that try to have them mash with reality is always a mistake. After all, who/what we become if we tear down or realize all our fantasies. My answer to that question is bodies, living thing without being, dasein.
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