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Q: \"For Freud, a literary work is analogous to its author’s dream.\" Referring closely to his essay \"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming,\" discuss Freud\'s conception of literature.
“ A literary Text is to a critic what a dream is to a therapists. Both reveal volumes”
Dr. Clarke, 2005
Although Freud was not in any way a deliberate aesthetic theorist, he did leave his mark on both literature and critical theory through his general psychoanalytic framework and also his specific turning to art to show that the range of applicability of psychoanalysis extended beyond dreams and neurosis to even the highest cultural achievements.
In his essay Creative Writers and Day-dreaming, Sigmund Freud’s focus is on the relationship of author and his work, and he seeks to answer that question - which peaks curiosity in the reader of any literary piece – “from what sources that strange being, the creative writer draws his material, and how he manages to make such an impression on us with......
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