Freddy and Freud

How is Sigmund Freud's basic dream theory disrupted or supported in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)?

"The true meaning of a dream can never

be known and never told "(Schneider, 1).

A Nightmare on Elm street (1984) is not just a horror film of bloody and violent nightmares, for the entertainment of classic movie goers. The problem is that movies like this generally are viewed by the general population, and the general population that fails to associate critical thinking with film watching. Viewers like this miss out on the hidden and fascinating features of A Nightmare on Elm Street, such as the holes the movie has in psychological terms. The unconscious mind plays an extremely important role within the movie, not just dreaming or nightmares, but the unconscious mind is the layer of the mind that keeps things hidden from our mind and continues to be a mystery and phenomenon to psychoanalysts everywhere. By average viewers of films such as these, they miss out on a chance to deepen their understanding of the mind and horror films. Through the lenses of psychoanalytic studies, this film displays the basic dream theory associated with Sigmund Freud; the gatekeeper theory and the unconscious mind theory. Although this is not only represented and structured the film, it is also rejected in immense ways, so how is Sigmund Freud’s basic dream theory disrupted or supported in a nightmare on elm street?