ABSTRACT

Thus anxiety becomes a symptom of the life drive, which interrupts the inescapable dead time found in all "present-day neurotic pathologies".

Psychic zones and the processes of unconscientization

Drawing on Freud's work and the contributions of post-Freudian writers, I shall attempt to describe what can be defined as Freudian metapsychological organizations and their influence on the construction of the unconscious (I use the term "psychic zone" to refer to each of these metapsychological organizations).