Contents
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The Conscious versus the Unconscious Mind
The Metalanguage of Literature
The ‘Fort-Da’ Game as Elementary Narrative Structure
Narrative Structure and the Psyche
Applying the Metalanguage of Fiction
‘…a solitary, obscure, frequently disappointing way of pursuing a life…’
Creative Writing and Freudian Psychosexual Development
Fantasy and the Creative Process
The ‘Splinter of Ice’ and Building ‘Castles in the Air’
‘Nothing Can Happen to Me!’ – the Creative Writer as Hero
‘Lashed to the Mast’ – the Artist’s Reworking of Fantasy
The Myth of the ‘Happy Person’
Creative Writing and the Reality Principle
The Imaginary and the Symbolic
Mind the Hermeneutic Gap: Creative Writing and Metonymy
Contemporary Playwriting and Influences