ABSTRACT
Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, had a very ambiguous reception, being praised on one hand and furiously criticised on the other. But this is a film about fantasy and dream in the everyday life; when the elements work together or parallel to each other, many features of 'logic' and continuity are bound to 'lose track'. The Jungian/post-Jungian outlook concerns the nature and activity of fantasy and dream in the human psyche and their encounter with the linear reality. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman succumb to sexual fantasy, around which jealousy, culpability for one's dreams and secret fantasies and the fragility of marriage cluster. Through Jungian eyes, a fantasy is an expression and psychic manifestation of complex images and ideas clustering around an archetypal core; as such it does not necessarily have to be 'pathological' in nature.
