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This is a special issue of DIVISION/Review, much of it devoted to the November 2016 conference entitled Any Body, Anybody—The Matter of the Unconscious sponsored by the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, the New School University in New York, and DIVISION/Review.
The title of the conference played on the multiple meanings both of Body and of Matter and indeed many of the papers sustained that multivalent character.
The matter of the unconscious is thus both its theme and its substance. The theme of the unconscious is itself a curious idea. Are there distinct unconscious themes, or can any forbidden wish be repressed and thereby enter the network of unconscious thought? Or are wishes forbidden only insofar as they touch upon certain themes? Is that where the body comes into play? Is it distinctly bodily thoughts, thoughts that evoke the body of the self and the body of the other, that motivate repression? Is this,