Photo of Jin Yuan's hometown in Xixiu Village, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Image © Sun Haiting
Sigmund Freud, the author of “The Interpretation of Dreams” and the founder of Psychoanalysis, once argued that, “A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfillment in the creative work.”