On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming"

by Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy, Sérvulo A. Figueira

In this volume-fourth in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues"-eminent scholars from a variety of theoretical and geographical backgrounds discuss Freud`s famous essay on the origins of daydreaming and its relation to fantasy and to the creative process.

Genres: Nonfiction

196 pages, Hardcover

First published July 26, 1995

About the author

Ethel Person, a Columbia University psychiatrist, did pioneering research on sexuality, visiting sex shops and drag dance clubs to help herself understand what motivates transsexuals and transvestites, and conducting broad-based clinical studies on the role of sexual fantasy in people’s lives.

Dr. Person wrote frequently on love and sexuality for general-interest publications and was the author of four books, the best known of which is By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives (1995), in which she argued that people shaped their lives by trying consciously or unconsciously to live out their fantasies.