A schizoid nightmare sequence from Clouzot's "La Prisonnière" in which the shy, married bourgeois Josée dreams of the violent and humiliating art of Stanislas and his gallery. At the mercy of her own fantasies, she will meet the violent sexual urges she tries so hard to repress.
As Dr. Brulov put it in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" ...
"The secrets of who you are and what has made you run away from yourself -- all these secrets are buried in your brain -- but you don't want to look at them. The human being very often doesn't want to know the truth about himself because he thinks it will make him sick. So, he makes himself sicker trying to forget. . . . Now, here is where dreams come in. They tell you what you are trying to hide. But they tell it to you all mixed up, like pieces of a puzzle that don't fit. The problem of the analyst is to examine this puzzle, and put the pieces together in the right place, and find out what the devil you are trying to say to yourself."
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