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“Fuseli painted what the Enlightenment refused to think about — the darkness inside the mind, the uninvited visitor that comes when reason sleeps.” — Gothic Imagination in Art and Literature

“No image of a nightmare has ever been more powerful — the incubus squatting on the chest, the horse’s blind eyes bulging through the curtain. It is fear made solid.” — Robert Hughes

#1. A Sensation at the Royal Academy. When The Nightmare was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, it caused a sensation — nothing so explicitly depicting the terrors of sleep and the unconscious mind had been publicly shown before. It was both condemned and enormously popular.

#2. The Word “Nightmare.” Fuseli’s painting helped fix the visual imagery associated with the word “nightmare” — the word itself is old, deriving from the Old English “mare,” an evil spirit believed to sit on sleeping people’s chests and cause bad dreams.

#3. Freud Owned a Copy. Sigmund Freud kept an engraving of The Nightmare in his consulting room in Vienna — the painting’s depiction of unconscious terror and repressed desire made it a natural symbol for the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis.