ABSTRACT
Using material from physics, linguistics, philosophy, and other disciplines, this chapter explores unconscious experiences as a means of expanding our view of the unconscious and its clinical utility beyond our present psychoanalytic orientations and metapsychological perspectives. Central to this exploration is the examination of the at once nebulous and possibly direct relationship between unconscious experience and the apprehension of reality and of our use of the concept of psychic reality, challenging the current psychoanalytic emphasis on subjective experience, as evident in the view that perception is interpretation. The chapter concludes with a commentary by Budick, a physicist, who finds a correlation between Einstein’s notion of ‘elsewhere’ and Wilner’s concept of ‘no-where’ as ‘now-here.’
