A Freudian Deam Analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Abstract David Lynch is an American filmmaker whose masterful oeuvre is known for its surrealism, avant-garde visual style and plots structured around the abstract workings of the human mind. With his blunt but inconsistent dialogues, esoteric characters, obscure symbolism and a non- linear nature to his narrative structure, Lynch’s works can be infuriatingly complex while keeping the viewers glued to the screen for a psychologically driven conclusion. The 2001 film “Mulholland Drive”—one of his most celebrated works, deals with the volatile dreamscape of the human mind. From around the 1970s, the theories of psychoanalysis have been applied to cinema studies. The dark and enigmatic nature of Lynch’s works both makes it necessary and provides us with an opportunity to go in depth to analyse the language of his films from a psychoanalytic point of view. This paper will attempt to understand the film Mulholland Drive through the application of the theory of “Dream Analysis” by Sigmund Freud to trace the fragile relation of dreams with reality. Keywords: David Lynch, psychoanalysis, dream analysis