On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"

Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy, Sigmund Freud, Sérvulo A. Figueira, International Psychoanalytical Association

Yale University Press, 1995 - Creative ability. - 196 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"; Contemporary Freud : turning points and critical issues; Volume 4 of Contemporary Freud; On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming", Ethel Spector Person
• Editors: Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy, Sigmund Freud, Sérvulo A. Figueira, International Psychoanalytical Association
• Contributor: International Psycho-Analytical Association
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0300062664, 9780300062663
• Length: 196 pages