Donald Winnicott was committed to the unconscious as an essential aspect of psychoanalytic theory and practice, though he neither elaborated his use of, nor provided definitions for, the term. He argues for the development of the unconscious as one strand of the development of the self, one aspect of what it means to be human. He links this to the psyche-soma and the primacy of the body in attaining individuation and separateness, paying particular attention to how bodily processes of taking in and expelling come to assume a lasting symbolic value in shaping the nascent psyche. In discussing neurotic patients, Winnicott follows Freud, but for patients where an early integration either never happened or was interrupted, he proposes that the existence of the unconscious itself may be in doubt. Such a claim has implications for how some analyses should proceed. I highlight two potentially related areas, the creativity of the unconscious and its links with the incommunicado self as a core of the human being that exists before the organization of consciousness and unconsciousness.