Siri Hustvedt's work illustrates how psychoanalysis offers unique and crucially important insights in the study of fundamental issues in human psychology such as those of memory, perception, subjectivity, and creativity. Her findings dovetail with Freud's concepts of hallucinatory wish-fulfilment and primary process (as further elaborated by psychoanalysts Pinchas Noy and Barry Opatow). The findings also find resonance in a variety of neuroscientific fields of research, especially in studies of theta rhythm and its role in dreaming, memory, and early mental development, the relationship between hallucination and perception, and the brain research of Rodolfo Llinas.