Catching ghosts.
There are few psychoanalytically informed, first-person commentaries on the creative process of writing fiction. In this paper, the author, a psychoanalyst with a parallel career as a children's book writer, explores his associations, autobiographical details, and related theoretical constructs as they relate to the writing of one of his published picture book texts. Lastly, he questions whether a piece of fiction not only illustrates the writer's current and past history, but also points to the writer's future psychological potentialities.
Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, Affiliate of the New York University School of Medicine, USA. dlhaseley@msn.com
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D000339:Affect; D003243:Consciousness; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008132:Loneliness; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D014956:Writing