Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory.

The author explores the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. Using clinical material, the author argues that we have an important bidirectional unconscious relationship with theory. Theory allows us to have experiences that contain important unconscious thinking, which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory. The author uses John Dewey's concept of experience as a vehicle to elucidate how theory is used unconsciously.