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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, directed and produced in 1958 and based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts (The living and the dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, remains a piece of cinematographic art. Art is impressionable, inviting a reader or viewer to consider different narratives belonging to the individually evoked experience. Sanchez-Cardenas aims to provide an understanding of how different narratives in the movie have been discovered and are still to be explored, using the unconscious axes introduced by Matte Blanco. As the title suggests, the viewer tumbles deeply into Hitchcock's dazzling unconscious only to recover a sense of reality towards the end of the movie together with Scottie, the main character of the movie. Sanchez-Cardenas's psychoanalytic reading of the plot, using Matte Blanco's logical theory of the structured repressed unconscious,