Abstract
The authors provide a critical discussion of the notion of unconscious, both in the cognitive-science sense and in the Freudian sense. The outcome of this discussion is that self-consciousness should be studied by integrating the subpersonal, bottom-up approach characteristic of cognitive sciences with recent developments in the psychodynamic framework, focusing (in particular) on the theories of cognitive-affectional relationality of the very young child: as is showed by the theories of object relations and attachment, physical contact and the construction of protective and communicative interpersonal structures constitute the infant’s primordial psychological needs, around which her mental life gradually takes form.
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