ABSTRACT
The interesting remarks the discussants made would, of course, need detailed answers, but we must limit ourselves. The author will essentially try to answer Anne Alvarez' remarks, because the author think that she is the only one who had a different view about what the author had to say. The term "the unconscious" was used—and Freud was quite explicit on point in a descriptive sense—to include preconscious. But there is an enormous difference in the functioning of the dynamic unconscious and the preconscious. Philosophers have always made the point that, in fact, music is the only medium that one has in which emotions in abstract can be experienced, disconnected from the contingencies of real life, which is an extraordinary thing. If we read in the Introductory Lectures Freud's comments on the id, there is not any mention about representations. On the other hand, what we would call in the ego a representation, in the id Freud called an instinctual impulse.
