On a Freudian Wordsworth

In his 1908 essay titled "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming," Sigmund Freud explains the origin of the creative impulse in writers in the following way:

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience...

The statement might be dismissed as one desperately trying to relate creativity to psychosis, had it not borne strong resemblance to William Wordsworth's idea in "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" written more than a century before:

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself exist in the mind.

It is interesting to see that both thinkers held that not a mere experience, but re-rendering an already rendered experience, a thought re-thought is necessary for artistic composition.

Well, it's just a thought.