From a reading of Freudian theories about the fantasy, we point to the importance of this dimension for membership of the postmodern subject to the computer. The current experience of this subject on the internet is based on the new routes for the fantasistic adventure, which opens a new locus for social bonding and action of subjectivity. For Freud, fantasy complements beside the unconscious desire, psychic reality, and fundamental to psychoanalysis. At the intersection between virtual reality and psychological envision new pathways for the latter, where the subject is faced with replacement of desire, the experience of pleasure online.
Virtual reality; psychic reality; fantasy; cyberspace; post-modernity