In this book, edited by Jose Carlos Calich and Helmut Hinz, outstanding authors from different regions and traditions present an excellent and scholarly panorama of psychoanalytical pluralism on the concept of unconscious. It fosters reflection, doubts and debates on the theme and nurtures the creativity that may later be reflected in theoretical progress and a greater understanding and effect of clinical practice."

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.