«What exactly is the unconscious? What is the difference between a witch, a priest, a psychiatrist and a psychologist? Does everyone know that they have an unconscious? What is the mind? And what does my dream mean? Did I forget what I said and thought when I was younger? Does the unconscious fully explain what we are?

In this book, questions about the unconscious take the simplest and most direct path. Faced with questions, Élisabeth Roudinesco responds to the concerns of young people and adolescents and invites us to take a walk full of metaphors, mythical figures, films, paintings and poems, to narrate the unconscious.