35 Although it doesn’t point out Republic X, Freud’s ‘Inventive Writers and Daydreaming,’ Neue Revue, 1 (1908) 716-24, rpt. in The Commonplace Version of the Full Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 9, Strachy, J., ed. (London 1959), 143-54Google Scholar, can in some ways be learn as a perceptive evaluation of Plato’s theories: ‘The artistic author does the identical factor because the youngster at play. He creates a world of phantasy which he takes very significantly – that’s, which he invests with massive quantities of emotion – whereas separating it sharply from actuality … Many issues, which in the event that they have been actual, might give no enjoyment, can achieve this within the play of phantasy, and plenty of excitements which, in themselves, are literally distressing, can change into a supply of enjoyment for the hearers and spectators on the efficiency of a author’s work’ (144). ‘Our precise enjoyment of an imaginative work proceeds from a liberation of tensions in our minds. It might even be that not just a little of this impact is because of the author’s enabling us thenceforward to get pleasure from our personal daydreams with out self-reproach or disgrace’ (153).
