The electricity of being

The unconscious is not a repository of repressed contents nor a dark space where we store what we don't want to see. It is an active force that structures our experience, operating constantly in every act, every word, every dream. Like electricity running through a house's circuits, the unconscious is invisible but determines what can be turned on, what can function, what can manifest in our psychic life.

It is this invisible force that divides us as subjects: between who we think we are and what manifests despite ourselves, between what we want to say and what escapes us in every slip, between our conscious intentions and the real effects of our acts. This is not a flaw to be corrected but our most intimate condition: we are subjects precisely because we are divided by this current that runs through us and exceeds us.

The subject is divided between conscious and unconscious domains shaped by the signifier, the law, language, and culture.

Like electricity, the unconscious doesn't need to be "discovered" to operate - it's already functioning at every moment, producing effects, generating short circuits, illuminating unexpected areas of our experience. Analysis doesn't seek to "find" the unconscious, but to learn to read its manifestations that are already there, visible to those who know how to look.