The gift of the unknown: Jung(ians) and Freud(ians) at the end of modernity

Abstract

This article is an invited critical response to the essays presented in this special issue on the Unknown. It argues that the Unknown has returned in several fields of knowledge at the end of modernity, representing a typical element in postmodern knowledge. The old and once-rigid dividing line between Jungian and Frendian discourses is being increasingly eroded, as contemporary participants in both traditions discover the Unknown at the core of our theorising and clinical practice.