The present article intends to discuss the possibility and the relevance, especially for clinical psychology, of establishing a comparison between the concept of unconscious just as it has been described by Freud and the phenomenological analysis of consciousness presented by Husserl. In order to carry out this task, the historical context and the teleological differences between the two theories are examined shortly and some of their main concepts are introduced. Finally, lhe relevance of this subject for clinical psychology is discussed through the characterization of l the phenomenologicalpsychotherapist's activity.
Phenomenology; Freud
