The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invests with large amounts of affect—while separating it sharply from reality.
— Sigmund Freud Modern

Psychoanalysis

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Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming

Date / Period

1908

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Strange & Unusual

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https://books.google.com/books?id=yI48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT19

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