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In this blog Creative Writers and Daydreaming, Sigmund Freud has shed light on; how creative writers comes with the thoughts and how it can be compared with or differs from the daydreaming. My impression to Freud’s childhood imagination was very personal, intriguing and reminiscences of my own childhood life, as for my drawing classes, I used to come up with the imagination of wide green hills, clear blue sky and small cottage like houses beneath the hills where small brook passes by from the side of the house. All this objects in drawings were mere part of my thoughts rather than any place where I had ever been to.

Freud’s idea of bringing the connection between child’s play and creative writers work is very interesting. As both of them play their part seriously and expends large amount of emotion in their work. Freud writes, “Child’s best- loved and most intense occupation is with his play or games. Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?” (21-25, Page 25) He then explains that creative writer does similar by creating the world of fantasy where writer takes his work very seriously and by investing large amount of his emotions. Nonetheless separating from the reality.

“The fact that all women in novel fall in love with the hero can hardly be looked on as a portrayal of reality, but it is easily understood as a necessary constituent of a daydream.” (78-80, Page 26) I agree with this part from the blog. Many times in the real world the true hero or  lover will be the one to get betrayed or dumped by the women. Whereas, in novel, the creative writer keeps himself in the mind of the reader and chooses his word and story to give some purposeful direction. Or, to make the story sound more interesting and meaningful.

His description on how one’s “strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfillment in the creative work.” (Page 27) describes the evolution that occurs between the childhood and adult phase of human.

After reading this article, I remembered one example, Shelly’s way of bringing a lifeless matter by joining pieces of other dead part is no less different than the story of Cinderella where an ugly and poor lady was turned into charming princess. As a reader and an imaginative thinker myself,  since childhood, I found Freud’s blog to be very good way of showing those similarities to readers.