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Freud, a child of his time, one of extraordinary discoveries, was interested in philosophy as well as in science. His considerations of the “residue” as the unknowable aspect of the mind led him to differentiate himself from the Kantian perspective and to emphasize the role of perception in the formation of dreams and representation. The word “residue” would not become a concept in his work but was clarified by other terms. Thus, the word Niederschlag, borrowed from chemistry, appears, which was to be translated by a set of words, for instance, “precipitate”. At other times, compound words such as “day residues” (Tagesreste) appear. Their use signals the consideration Freud gives to perception in the formation of word-presentations. These Freudian reflections have been taken up and developed by contemporary psychoanalysts. For them, the perceptual field (le perceptif) becomes the organizer of a traumatic state of an absence of representation. The author stress that the perceptual field has this organizing role, not only in traumatic states or in nocturnal life, but also in the work of artists such as S. Hicks and in the silence of the daily analytic practice.