Jogos, poemas, fantasias: a posição da criação em Freud

This article aims to understand the role of poetry in Freud based upon the relation it has with the creative process in general. If Freud ends up approximating, genetically and formally, the literary creation to the infantile games and the adult fantasies, poetry and its effectiveness are almost reduced to a technique – which he, in the end, cannot capture with his concepts. Thus, in a detailed reading, it is not the similarities between the three psychic productions that stand out, but this ultimate and enigmatic difference, an important residue ensuing from the Freudian reflection itself.