Main description:

This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. It presents some of the original theoretical developments and the cogitations on the unconscious, from various world regions and different thought orientations.

Contents:

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Three meanings of the word "unconscious" in the framework of the General Theory of Seduction -- The unconscious and relational psychoanalysis -- "Through the unknown remembered gate": the unconscious reconsidered-an essay -- The question of the unconscious in common and shared psychic spaces -- Eulogy of surprise -- On the inevitable neglect of the unconscious: a contemporary reminder -- The Freudian unconscious nowadays: a Lacanian look -- The unconscious in the perspective of complexity and of chaos: an initial approach -- Epilogue