The Mystery of the Unconscious

In his recent publication, The Jouissance Principle,[2] Christian Fierens poses the question as to how desire is to be understood. If the simple function of the dream is the fulfilment of a disguised wish linked to the pleasure principle, then following on from this, the ethics of psychoanalysis, moderated by pleasure and prudence at the level of the individual, would come within the general quest of a framework for pleasure or happiness, [3] that of a universal framework.…