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The two volumes of The Philosophy of Unconscious were published with a three-year interval between them, the first in 1998, and the second one in 2001, at Trei Publishing House, in Bucharest. The title of this work would suggest that it might be seen as a reply to Edward von Hartman's paper, famous at the time, but Vasile Dem. Zamfirescu places his entire approach under the sign of Constantin Noica, whose disciple he was.
In the first volume, the author proposes a unitary explanation of the spirit, starting with something that the traditional philosophy has never wanted, nor been able to assume: the unconscious. The great discovery of the psychoanalysis (the unconscious) is used in the making of a constructive, systematic and synthetic approach.
The constructive aspect consists in revealing the unconscious dimension of the spirit; the systematic one leads to the reconsideration and reconstruction of the spirit realm from the perspective of the unconscious. Both of them are encompassed by a synthetic vision, which utilizes “all contributions to psychoanalysis, regardless of the school that has produced them”. Given the expansion of present knowledge, the natural interaction between these three types of approach mentioned here generates a construction of a surprising clarity and explanatory coherence.
The edifice of the philosophy of unconscious is built on two ideas: the unconscious spirit and the impurity of the spirit. We owe both these discoveries to the clinical activity of the founder of psychoanalysis, although he has never converted them to actual topics. The author's contribution