Analysis Of Sigmund Freud's Creative Writers And Day-Dreaming

Sigmund Freud’s “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”
a. In 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming', Freud proposes that fiction is a wish-fulfilling realm in which the artist, disguised as the hero, is guided by his ego to fulfill unsatisfied desires by means of phantasy. This act is a continuation of childhood play as adults are ashamed of their fantasies and repress them.
b. This text represents Psychoanalytic criticism. Several assumptions relate back to the belief that the author’s phantasies come from unsatisfied desires and are an attempt to recover childhood pleasure. Psychoanalysis also states that the goal of all behavior is the reduction of tension through release, in accordance with hedonistic principles. Psychoanalytic theory interprets work through the author’s psyche. For instance, Freud highlights childhood development and totalizes literary production as a hedonistic act conducted by the author as a substitute for childhood play. This interpretation relies on the examination of the creator’s unconscious and of the heroes in the creator’s wish-fulfilling world.
c. Freud establishes a common element: the human desire to alter their existing and often unsatisfactory or unpleasant reality. All individuals are frustrated within their lives, whether they are non-writers who cannot reclaim their childhood stimulant or as individuals unhappy in their marriages, etc.. Freud contests that desires, repressed to an unconscious state, will emerge in disguised forms: in dreams, in language, in creativity, and in neurotic behavior.. We can look for these occurrences in the future to conduct an analysis of the author’s own repressed desires or fictional characters.
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...mentalize themselves into dividing forces. Feminism is about equality for men and women. Patriarchal societies instill that women must compete with themselves (men having women fight over them, calling each other sluts, etc.) to rise instead of uniting. This is an example of a common ideology that powers a superstructure—looking for similar instances will broaden analyses using a feminist lens as Marxism lends heavily to feminism criticism. Lorde's essay is an important contribution to feminist discourse, but it is also important to our fundamental approach to life. Not only feminists, but most social movements, and societies, try to gloss over difference. We try repeatedly to "overcome our differences," to unite "despite our differences". We must recognize our differences and understand that these are a potential source of creativity and unity in and of themselves.