ABSTRACT
Many authors have explored the work of the unconscious, focusing in particular on dream work, understood differently from classical "oneiric work", which is overall destined to mask latent content. Even ancient literature and mythology make frequent reference to an intense unconscious activity that is the bearer of unexpected solutions that can take the subject's conscious central ego by surprise. It is especially in the dream that the gods appear to mortals and convey to them what to do in crucial moments of their experiences: apparently "magical" solutions springing up from deep sources rather than from conscious reasoning by the subject's ego. The conscious central ego knew how to recognise and respect the occasional superior creativity of the whole of the unconscious-preconscious in these difficulties, giving it space without narcissistically opposing it and without allowing his desires for control to prevail over what happened at this juncture.
