Freud was fond of referring to psychoanalysis as the third great blow to human narcissism. Earth no longer being the center of the galaxy, nor human nature of divine genesis, Freud proclaims a method of discourse demonstrating the interminable falsity of the human subject's belief in the mastery of his or her own mental life. This is a revolutionary finding, ultimately up setting the episteme that has governed Western thinking at least since Descartes. Freud (1916-1917) was partially aware that it augured “a critical new direction in the world and in science,” issuing from discovery of the dynamic and contradictory construction of our mental life—the discovery of the so-called “repressed unconscious” (p. 15). What are the conditions of this discovery? What is this unconscious dynamic of which Freud