This book explores the unconscious from within psychoanalysis that take cross-disciplinary input from the cultural, social, and linguistic perspectives. This book is the first contemporary collection applying the various perspectives from within the psychoanalytic discipline.

Pascal Sauvayre is a member of the faculty and a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He has a private practice in New York City. He is a co-translator of the upcoming translation of Laplanche's The Tub: Transcendence of the Transference.

David Braucher is a member of the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute's Division I Psychoanalytic Program and a lecturer at NYU Steinhart. He is on the editorial board of the journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and author of Life Smarts on PsychologyToday.com. He is in private practice in the Manhattan's West Village.

List of Contributors Introduction Part I: The Unconscious is Everywhere, and Nowhere Chapter 1: From Out of Nowhere: The Paradox of Unconscious Experience Commentary: Einstein's Elsewhere Chapter 2: Into the Frog Swamp: Jungian Conceptions of the Unconscious in Practice Commentary: Freud and Jung: Submission and Surrender to the Unconscious Part II: Power and the Social Unconscious Chapter 3: Enactment, Power, or Play, in Jessica Benjamin's Clinical Theory Chapter 4: The Power Principle: The shame of the father or the emperor's new clothes Chapter 5: Enacting Identity: Normative Unconscious Processes in Clinic and Culture Commentary: The Sexual Unconscious in Tension with Normative Unconscious Processes Part III: Language, the Sexual, and the Unconscious Chapter 6: Introduction to a Lacivanian Idiolect Commentary: Are Lacan and Sullivan Linked by their Conceptions of Anxiety and the Unassimilable? Chapter 7: Après Coup Commentary: How the World Becomes Bigger; Implantation, Intromission and the Après-coup Index