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In their reply to Caron Harrang’s commentary (this issue, 2022), the authors dwell on the problem of the difficulty that many people have in reading Bion, on his propensity to intertextual dialogue with other disciplines, and on the centrality of the concept of intuition in his thought. They take up and then expand Caron Harrang’s beautiful image, inspired by Suzanne Simard’s work, of the secret communication between plants to further illustrate the theme of the intersubjective constitution of the individual and therefore the need to develop a concept of common or third unconscious. On a different way of understanding the unconscious, such as the one adopted by Bion and the analytic field, an ethical refoundation of psychoanalysis can be based, consisting in the abandonment or relativization of “suspicious” listening, the overcoming of the I/you split and the adoption of a shared or we-perspective for the analytic couple.