ILLUSION PROCESSING

AUTISTIC WORLD

ILLUSIONISTIC WORLD

REALISTIC WORLD

Untutored Fantasy

Tutored Fantasy

Sense Perception

Omnipotent Thinking

Adventurous Thinking

Reality Testing

Utter Whimsicality

Orderly Imagination

Hard, Undeniable Facts

Free Associations

Inspired Connections

Logical Connections

Ineffable Images

Verbalizable Images

Look- and-See Referents

Hallucinatory
Entities or Events

Imaginative
Entities or Events

Actual
Entities or Events

Private Needs

Cultural Needs

Factual Needs

Symptoms

Symbols

Signs, Indexes

Dreaming

Playing

Working

Sterility

Creativeness

Resourcefulness

Internal Object (Imago)

Transcendent Objects Prefigured by the Child's Transitional Object

External Objects

From Pruyser, P., "The Tutored Imagination in Religion".