Stanley Kubrick s last dream

Abstract

This work relates the effects of Psychoanalysis in art, through the work of a novel by the writer Arthur Schnitzler (Dream story) that motivated the great director Stanley Kubrick to make his film Eyes wide shut.
The coincident aspects between Freud and Schnitzler are highlighted,both of them were contemporaries, jews, atheists, passionate about exploring the dark aspects of the human being and motivated by the «enigma of dreams.»
Stanley Kubrick, an admirer of Schnitzler’s novel, dreamed for thirty years of bringing the Dream story to the cinematographic
language and in that process he was reached by the effects that psychoanalysis marked on the art of the 20th century, in the West.