Parents often consider their children to be the highest level of responsibility and devote a huge portion of their life to them and their care. These children grow up knowing that their parents love them, maybe more than anything else in their life. It would make sense that many of these children would grow up with an overinflated sense of importance that they would have to temper in every day society. It might seem like these children grow up and enter society where they learn that they are not the most important thing to most people, but what if they resent this? It would, of course, be inappropriate to ever say that one resents not being the most important individual, but this only makes it more likely to fit in with Freud’s ideas about repression. These grown up children want to be the most important again, so they create characters to represent themselves that are all important. These are the heroes of stories. They are people creating a world where they are the most important individual. The people who read them would then imagine themselves as the character presented. They would then relive the world that circles around them that they lost in childhood. Writers and readers are then individuals obsessed with rebuilding their self-importance, even if they can never voice that want. This presents a negative view of literature, where it is a way of encouraging an already high self-regard. On the other hand, the literature could be a way of releasing building resentments about not getting enough attention in society. Then, if the tension were not released, it could come out in angry words or other negative modes of expression. If this were the case, then reading and writing may be positive methods of release.
If this theory is true, does that mean that reading and writing fantasies is not something that should be encouraged in society as it only encourages egoism or is it cathartic?
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