Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Salvador Dalí painted the Metamorphosis of Narcissus in 1937, showing the Greek youth transforming into a flower. On the left, Narcissus gazes at his reflection. On the right, a stone hand holds an egg from which a narcissus blooms. The two images mirror each other in a hallucinatory double vision.

Dalí developed his "paranoiac-critical method" to access irrational imagery while awake. He showed this painting to Sigmund Freud, who reportedly said it changed his skepticism about Surrealism. Dalí wrote a poem to accompany the work. It hangs at Tate Modern.