The poietic unconscious, the beginning of psychoanalysis

Abstract

This paper consists of an introduction to the poietic Unconscious. Considering the various manifestations of the Unconscious, the paper investigates the most original, strictly speaking, poietic, creative or productive manifestations of the Unconscious itself. To begin, the paper presents some dialogues with authors such as Lou-Andreas Salomé, Victor Tausk, Lionel Naccache and Michel Tournier among others. Then, the paper discusses some problems related to the constitutive elements of the formation process of the poietic Unconscious in general and its functioning mechanisms in particular. By way of conclusion, the paper considers the mode of being of such mechanisms, respectively, according to the observation of a failed existence or according to the affirmation of a successful existence.