Psihoanaliza sprva ni posvečala posebne pozornosti glasbi. Vendar so se taka stališča do danes spremenila. Neopsihoanalitik Carl Gustav Jung je bil navdušen zlasti nad Wagnerjevimi glasbenimi ...dramami, nad njegovimi tematskimi analizami mita, nad vodilnimi motivi in mističnimi prizori.
Despite his reputed indifference to music, Freud sometimes refers knowledgeably to it. This paper suggests that the Freudian unconscious is partly modeled on the music of late Romanticism in ...association with representations of feminine desire. Freud’s Dora case and Richard Strauss’s opera Salome converge on a fin-de-siècle concept of a musical unconscious.