On Freud's "Creative writers and day-dreaming" / edited by Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy, Sérvulo Augusto Figueira.

Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First presented as an informal lecture in 1907, "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming" pursues two lines of inquiry: it explores the origins of daydreaming and its relation to the play of children, and it investigates the creative process. Following an introduction by Ethel Spector Person, the contributors to this volume provide commentaries on Freud's essay, explicating the twists and turns in psychoanalytic theories of fantasy and in applied psychoanalysis. Their essays place Freud's paper in historical context, describe the clinical value of daydreams and fantasies, offer a Kleinian view of fantasy, provide analytic approaches to creativity and fantasy, comment on the ambiguity caused by multiple translations of Freud's text, and reframe the idea of fantasy from a modern biological and developmental approach.

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COVER; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908); Part Two: Discussion of Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming -- A Masterpiece of Illumination; A Modem View of Freud's Creative Writers and Day-dreaming -- The Clinical Value of Daydreams and a Note on their Role in Character Analysis; Some Reflections on Phantasy and Creativity; Unconscious Phantasy, Identification, and Projection in the Creative Writer; Reality and Unreality in Phantasy and Fiction; Creative Writers and Day-dreaming: A Commentary; Creative Writers and Dream-Work-Alpha.

Fantasy and Beyond: A Current Developmental Perspective on Freud's ""Creative Writers and Day-dreaming""""Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"": A Parochial View; Contributors; Index.

English.

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