Unlocking the Importance of Dream in Inception
Dwi Setianingsih Rahardjo
Abstract
Using Freud’s Pychoanalytic criticism, this paper will examine the relation between dreams and unconscious in Inception. One of Freud’s famous saying about dream is that it is the royal road of the unconscious. Based on this notion, several scenes at the movie will be analyzed to prove that unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories are really projected in a dream. In the movie, the notion of unconscious is never introduced; instead they use the notion of subconscious. However in this paper, distinction will be made between those two, based on Freud’s theory of what unconscious is. After investigating the relation of dream and unconscious, this study comes to a conclusion that dream is much more influential than what we’re thinking.
