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Daydreams for Freud were thus a valuable resource.

' These day-dreams are cathected with a large amount of interest ; they are carefully cherished by the subject and usually concealed with a great deal of sensitivity ... such phantasies may be unconscious just as well as conscious '.

He considered ' These phantasies include a great deal of the true constitutional essence of the subject's personality ' and that the energetic man ' is one who succeeds by his efforts in turning his wishful phantasies into reality ', while the artist ' can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis '.