Provenance

How a creative writer finds his sources? How these fantasy writers are able to write hundreds of pages and how they are able to bring everything in coherence is the biggest question of all. To become a writer one has to determined enough to create something new and that determination is what is essential to become a writer. There cannot be anything without an origin and for a creative writer his conscious or even unconscious thoughts for that matter are the source. Sigmund Freud one of the noted psychoanalysts found this and had given it in his essay Creative Writers and Day-dreaming.

I hope people all are well aware of Sigmund Freud. He is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and defence mechanism of repression. He used the power of sub-conscious mind to treat the worries of patients. He gave new dimensions to sexual desires and is also known for his interpretation of dreams and he believed in the fact that dreams gives an insight of the unconscious desires. And more importantly he is also known for his Id, ego and Super ego a model which he used to divide human psyche.

Creative Writers and Day-dreaming is an essay which was published in the year 1908, which insists on one important element of -how a writer derives his source. He begins the essay stating that if someone asks a creative writer about the sources which helped him to finish his work Freud says for a writer to answer this question would be the toughest job.
..if we ask him, the writer himself gives us no explanation, or none that is satisfactory;

Freud in this essay have mentioned about childhood desires as the main reason for an ordinary person to become a creative writer. Children love to play and while they are playing they use their dreams to take a major effect in their play. He feels those are the first traces of imaginative activity. Children live in their own fantasy world with imaginative characters and that is the main reason why children are easily attracted to cartoons and other fantasy movies. They do not take up their real life seriously instead they take their play so serious.It is not that adults do not like to fantasize but are scared to do it because or rather ashamed.Wishes is what that determine our dreams and those unwished dreams make a person to build his world of fantasy. Freud says our dreams are nothing but our fantasies but he is not sure about that relation between these two though. Everyone dreams which means every single human being has desires and there are dreams which we are ashamed of but somehow we try to conceal that and pretend as if nothing has happened.These repressed wishes consequently moves back to our unconsious. Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams gives us a detailed knowledge about dreams. In the final part of the Creative Writers and Day-dreaming, Freud goes on to explain how these writers are egoistic by nature and their intention is potrayed in the work of art they create.