ABSTRACT
Freud first begans his excavations the creativity of the unconscious minds, with its untold capacity to surprise and synthesise, harnessed by creative writers, and unleashed by the psychoanalytic process. With notable exceptions, the increasing emphasis on the therapeutic relationship in contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapter rehabilitates the unconscious as celebrated in literature and psychoanalytic work as the very basis of human vitality. The making and breaking of stories is a product of the continuing rapprochement between attachment theory and psychoanalysis that is a striking feature of contemporary relationally inclined psychoanalysis. Bowlby insistes that one could be both biological and psychosocial, and serve the masters of research and therapy without betraying either. 'Story stem' research has become a potent research tool in the attachment field that classifies the different kinds of stories children tell calamity resolutions, augmentations, inconclusiveness depending on their attachment disposition. The Adult Attachment Interview classifies, in a quasi-literary way, style and manner of their telling.
