How to Conquer Writer's Block

But what is writer's block, anyway? Edmund Bergler, a well-known disciple of Sigmund Freud, first coined the term in New York City in 1947. He believed that writer's block was one of the many manifestations of "psychic masochism," which is "the unconscious wish to defeat one's conscious aims, and to enjoy that self-constructed defeat."
Why would a writer (or anyone else for that matter) want to do that? Because, according to Bergler's theory, the person's subconscious is furious about having been denied enough milk and nurturing by his or her pre-Oedipal mother, so he or she, subconsciously, wants to recreate that starved feeling-by becoming blocked.