" To give a precise formulation of the difference between the productive and sterile writer: the unproductive, neurotically inhibited writer exhausts his psychic energy in the creation of his unconscious alibi of the defense mechanism of pseudo aggression ("I refuse") while at the same time he still retains the unconscious masochistic wish to be refused. The productive writer, experiences the same conflict, solves it by eliminating, intrapsychically, the mother: I, myself, autharchically, give ideas and words (milk). The successful writer sets a "magic gesture" into motion: he dramatizes, unconsciously, how he allegedly wanted to be treated—kindly, and receiving. "

― Edmund Bergler , The Writer and Psychoanalysis