p In this chapter we have tried to integrate the factual material characterizing the conditions of the process of phantasy obtained by various investigators with our theoretical views.

p We have considered a number of factors influencing the process of phantasy which we conventionally organized here into four groups to facilitate the analysis: motives, personal peculiarities, socio-psychological and age factors. In reality, the same psychological entities can be qualified both as motives and personal qualities, while socio-psychological factors often pose as motives.

p This material is not considered by other authors from the standpoint of existing conceptions of productive mental activities. To illustrate this, the data on the personal qualities contributing to creativity were not juxtaposed to explicit or implicit contents of different theories on thinking and phantasy; as a rule, in textbooks and manuals, such data were presented in the form of additional information which, in the opinion of the authors, must not necessarily be in harmony with the laws of thinking and creativity rendered in parallel with it. By and large, throughout this chapter we have tried to prove that such an agreement is hardly conceivable.

The facts we have considered have enabled us to assert that the character of influence of such prerequisites as motives, personal peculiarities, social and age factors upon the process of phantasy is effected through the mechanisms of anaxiomatization and hyperaxiomatization. It is true that the realization of the main motives of phantasy pressupposes the action of these two mechanisms while successful creativity mostly benefits from the personal features, as well as socio-psychological and age factors which suggest a specific orientation of anaxiomatization. In other words, various prerequisites (factors) may have a positive or a negative.influence upon the results of phantasy depending on how they control the intrinsic laws. However, the prerequisites (factors) may affect only the orientation of these laws, the latter preserving their power in every situation. Consequently, all the theoretical models of phantasy seem incomplete and one-sided (thus, inadequate), if they ignore its intrinsic laws, the knowledge of which, as we have proved, provides us with a rational explanation of the significance of various conditions of the process of phantasy and with an opportunity to unify them in a single whole. As to the factors such as external circumstances which immediately affect the subject’s psychic states, they are all included in the context of applied problems of phantasy (Chapter VII).