The goal of this article is to analyze the conceptions about the unconscious connected with the everyday life of the therapeutic practice network, as a contribution to the mental health clinical approach. The participant research took place in a Psychosocial Care Center at São Paulo countryside. The results showed the most frequent conceptions: unconscious as unconsciousness, unconscious as ignorance, and unconscious as a method to listen to the subject and to the relationships in the institution. Those results demonstrate a theoretical flexibility that allows complex articulations in diverse interventions in the everyday life of the team referring to subjectivities and knowledge about unconscious, related or not to psychoanalysis. It is concluded that practical knowledge elucidation about unconscious contributes to this subject deepening in the psychiatric reform.
unconscious; everyday life; psychosocial care; mental health