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    Repulsion and Day-dreaming: Freud Writing Freud

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    Author
    Brophy, K
    Date
    2006-10-15
    Source Title
    New Writing
    Publisher
    Informa UK Limited
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Brophy, Kevin
    Affiliation
    Creative Arts
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    Journal Article
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    Brophy, K. (2006). Repulsion and Day-dreaming: Freud Writing Freud. New Writing, 3 (2), pp.132-144. https://doi.org/10.2167/new324.0.
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    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/25398
    DOI
    10.2167/new324.0
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    Deposited with the permission of Multilingual Matters

    Abstract
    Beginning with a reflection on our helplessness in the face of our own discoveries about ourselves in the course of living, this paper outlines the several ways in which psychoanalysis has documented and constructed this helplessness; in turn, Freud’s own writings can be read as his own ‘helpless’ response to early experiences. This paper offers a reading of Freud’s 1907 essay, ‘Creative writers and day-dreaming’ as an unconscious expression of his fear of repulsion (in himself and from others), matched to a desire to seduce the reader. For Freud, though, repulsion is inescapable, for creative writing in his view is never more than foreplay. What then of writing that confronts and unsettles?
    Keywords
    Australian and New Zealand; Professional Creative Writing; Psychology not elsewhere classified; The Creative Arts; Languages and Literature

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