ABSTRACT
One of the difficulties in addressing an unconscious that is unre-pressed, and which is unconscious for structural reasons rather than repression, is that it can only be inferred. It is only with Matte Blanco’s 1975 reformulation of the unconscious as a logical concomitant of displacement and condensation that this inference gains validity. Several years later, and shortly before the session in question, she had started to discuss the idea of finishing her analysis. This was something authors had been wondering about for some months. The session was quiet and unremarkable; however, she said that she found herself not anxious about a lecture she had to give in a few days’ time. Matte Blanco’s logic demonstrates a psychic mode that is multi-dimensional, timeless, and spaceless. It cannot be a process—a primary process as Freud dubbed it—because without time or space process is impossible: whence the coinage, “mode”.
