Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming German Der Dichter und das Phantasieren, was an informal talk given in by Sigmund Freud, and subsequently published in , on the relationship between unconscious phantasy and creative art. Freuds argument that artists, reviving memories of childhood Ver ms. Freud began his talk by raising the question of where writers drew their material from, suggesting that children at play, and adults day-dreaming, both provided cognate activities to those of the literary artist. Heroic Ver ms. J. J. Spector, The Aesthetics of Freud Joseph J. Sandler ed, On Freuds Creative Writers and Daydreaming Ver ms. Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming, Notes de Mijolla-Mellor Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming Literary Encyclopedia Ver ms. Freud saw the aesthetic principle as the ability to turn the private phantasy into a public artefact, using artistic pleasure to release a deeper Ver ms. D. W. Winnicott Edmund Wilson F. Scott Fitzgerald Hanns Sachs Sublimation Ver ms. WebFreuds Creative Writ