This article discusses the concept of the unconscious in the thinking of Merleau-Ponty as a contribution to psychotherapy. It proposes this thinker's notion of authentic speech as an expression of the unconscious in psychotherapy, defined as "articulations of the fields." We conclude that the concept of the unconscious in Merleau-Ponty densifies the theorization of humanistic-phenomenological psychotherapy as a process of seeking for the meanings of the Lebenswelt, which has as its ever-unfinished objective an understanding of the chiasmus.
Unconscious; Merleau-Ponty; psychotherapy