Before revision: Berman, Translating Modernism (2010) p. 13 Artistic sources Freud began his talk by raising the question of where writers drew their material from, suggesting that children at play, and adults day-dreaming, both provided cognate activities to those of the literary artist.Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 307-8 Heroic and erotic daydreams or preconscious phantasies in both men and women were seen by Freud as providing substitute satisfactions for everyday deprivations;S. Freud, On Psychopathology (PFL 10) p. 88 and the same phantasies were in turn turned into sharable (public) artistic constructs by the creative writer, where they could serve as cultural surrogates for the universal instinctual renunciations inherent in civilization.S.
After revision: Berman, Translating Modernism (2010) p. 13 Artistic sources Freud began his talk by raising the question of where writers drew their material from, suggesting that children at play, and adults day-dreaming, both provided cognate activities to those of the literary artist.Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 307-8 Heroic and erotic daydreams or preconscious phantasies in both men and women were seen by Freud as providing substitute satisfactions for everyday deprivations;S. Freud, On Psychopathology (PFL 10) p. 88 and the same phantasies were in turn turned into shareable (public) artistic constructs by the creative writer, where they could serve as cultural surrogates for the universal instinctual renunciations inherent in civilization.S.