ABSTRACT
The efficacy of the unconscious does not cease in the waking state. The psychoanalytic experience does nothing other than establish that the unconscious leaves none of our actions outside its field. The rest of the dream-elaboration is designated as secondary by Freud, the nature of which indicates its value: they are phantasies or daydreams (Tagtraum) to use the term Freud prefers in order to emphasize their function of wish-fulfillment (Wunscherfullung). A return to Freud’s text shows on the contrary the absolute coherence between his technique and his discovery, and at the same time this coherence allows us to put all his procedures in their proper place. The intolerable scandal in the time before Freudian sexuality was sanctified was that it was so ‘intellectual’. The radical heteronomy that Freud’s discovery shows gaping within man can never again be covered over without whatever is used to hide it being profoundly dishonest.
