Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming

"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" (German: Der Dichter und das Phantasieren) was an informal talk given in 1907 by Sigmund Freud, and subsequently published in 1908, on the relationship between unconscious phantasy and creative art. Freud's argument – that artists, reviving memories of childhood daydreams and play activities, succeeded in making them acceptable through their aesthetic technique – was to be widely influential for modernism in the interwar period.

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