The imagery of the writer is inevitably determined by his individual experiences and outlook. It is consequently of potential value as a projective test of his personality, creative processes, and life history. Extensive use of the principle, influenced more or less unconsciously by psychoanalysis, has already been made by literary scholars. Their methods and findings are reviewed and aspects of interest to the analyst discussed. With increasing emphasis on the activities of the preconscious, the feats of the creative imagination of writers prove relevant to the interpretation of images both in dreams and during free association.