The Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) began his career just as Freud released ''The Interpretation of Dreams.'' Accordingly, the Neue Galerie's ''Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909'' is replete with the terrors of the freshly analyzed psyche. Monsters, demons and mythical beasts roam free; humans abandon themselves to bestial impulses. Done in black-and-white pen, ink and spray on heavy paper used for cartography, Kubin's drawings map the shadowy corners of the unconscious. The show, organized by Annegret Hoberg of the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich's municipal gallery, also offers viewers an alternative to the image of Viennese art as sumptuous, decorative and refined. You would never guess that Kubin was a contemporary of Gustav Klimt; he is closer in spirit to the Belgian James Ensor and the Norwegian Edvard Munch, visionaries who expressed modernity's spiritual toll and anticipated some of the horrors of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]