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

On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming," edited by E. Person, P. Fonagy, and S. Figueira. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 196.

This collection of papers, based on Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" is most welcome, for Freud opened up a connection between child's play, phantasy, and creativity that has remained fruitful throughout the century. The contributors to the volume have taken this occasion to make summaries of their most important contributions concerning phantasy and creativity, and have presented informed reviews of essential ideas on the topic from Freud, Klein, and Bion.

Several authors debate the nature of unconscious phantasy and …