L’inconscio, ovvero l’affettività come materia = The Unconscious, i.e. Affectivity as a Matter

The problem of affect and affectivity plays a significant role in psy-choanalysis, both at a theoretical and therapeutic level. The exist-ence of a ‘representational’ dimension within the unconscious opens the way for a dual or bifacial re-reading of it, beyond the biological-organic constitution of Freud’s Unbewusste. Paul Ricoeur’s research reveals the significance of this double approach and constitution. A combination of Husserl’s phenomenological and Ricœur’s hermeneu-tical approaches helps to find a third, “mediative” way.