ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I set out to explore Martin Heidegger’s conception of language in the context of creativity and the psychoanalytic experience. I explore Heidegger’s conception of language as “the house of being” in relation to Freud’s conception of the unconscious and show how the so-called unconscious may be perceived instead from a linguistic perspective, transforming the conventional notion of unconscious processes—aspects of the thoughts and feelings of which we have no awareness—into a properly existential-phenomenological paradigm.
