 Poe and Fuseli shared an interest in the subconscious; Fuseli is often quoted as saying, "One of the most unexplored regions of art are dreams".Fuseli's "Nightmare" reverberated with twentieth-century psychological theorists.In 1926, American writer Max Eastman paid a visit to Sigmund Freud and claimed to have seen a print of "The Nightmare" displayed next to Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson" in Freud's Vienna apartment.