The paper presents a discussion of Vygotsky's works recently translated into French at the book Conscience, inconscient, émotions. The first, "Consciousness as a problem of behavioral psychology", published in 1925, is a lecture, at Institute of Psychology in Moscow in 1924. The second, "The psyche, consciousness and the unconscious" was published in 1930. Both appear in the first volume of the Russian edition, in six volumes, works of Vygotsky. The third, "The emotions and their development in childhood", is one of the lectures on psychology Higher Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad in 1932, which appears in the second volume of the works. Written between 1924 and 1932, trough with eight years of a decade of prodigious production of Vygotsky, the texts are discussed in the light of recent publications, especially in the field of psychoanalysis. In this context debate, consciousness appears as a work of connection always subject to disconnection.
Vygotsky; consciousness; emotion; unconscious