CREATIVE
WRITERS AND DAY DREAMING
FREUD
Sigmund Freud is
one of the ‘seminal minds of modern era. He is recognized as the founder of
psycho-analysis. Most human mental activity, according to Freud, is unconscious
and the primary source of psychic energy –LIBIDO—is sexual. Freud divides the
human mind into 3 zones:
1.
The ID--unconscious.
2.
The Ego—conscious personality
3.
The Super EGO—conscience.
Dreams and
neurotic symptoms are the result of drives rising from the ID, being repressed
by the EGO and the super Ego and finding expression in displaced forms.
Freud
begins the essay by asking: “What is the source from which the creative writer
draws his materials?
ÜFor this even the creative writer cannot give a satisfactory reply.
Ü His attempt is always to
lessen the distance between him and the common run of humanity.
