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Lee, Youngzun. “John Burningham’s The Magic Bed: On the Illusive Fantasy of Children in the Period of Preoperational Stage in Terms of Primary Transitional Object and Animism.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 199-218. For those children who are in the period of preoperational stage, their dreams and fantasies vividly emerge as real things to them. In their intuitive belief, inanimate objects are received like as those human beings who are living and speaking. They frequently make such illusive fantasies of their own world through their egocentric mind and animism. In The Magic Bed, Georgie has a magic bed which insinuates the absolute fulfillment of his inner wish and desire. For his illusive fantasy, his magic bed occupies the Imaginary place of an ‘object a.’ As a transitional object, it projects a transitional phenomenon to the lack of his mind, while Georgie’s illusions are constructed through the magic bed. In fact the bed is a kind of movie screen where his wishes and desires are illusively materialized. This potential area locates in the ‘middle playground’ between his inner psyche and the presence of his mother. However, as he begins to meet his friends and play with them, he becomes realistic, gradually having his ‘perspective taking’ and understanding the social ways of the real world. (Hannam University)