PHI 170 Chapter Whole reading: Freud Notes
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Freud- the relation of the poet to day-dreaming notes. Every child at play behaves like an imaginative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, more truly, he rearranges the things of his world and orders it in a new way that pleases him better. The child does take the world seriously and spends a great deal of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not serious occupation but reality. The writer does the same as a child at play: he creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously- he invest it with a great deal of affect while separating it sharply from reality. Many emotions which are essentially painful may become a source of enjoyment to the spectators and hearers of a poet"s work. By comparing his would-be serious occupations with his childhood"s play, he manages to throw off the heavy burden of life and obtain the great pleasure of humour.
