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

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Ethel Spector Person is director and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

• Preface , Introduction , Creative Writers and Day-dreaming (1908) , Discussion of “Creative Writers and Day-dreaming” , A Masterpiece of Illumination , A Modern 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” , Creative Writers and Dream-Work-Alpha , Fantasy and Beyond , “Creative Writers and Day-dreaming”