The Unconscious in Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption: On the Threshold of a Possible Revelation

Abstract This paper discusses Franz Rosenzweig’s use of the term “the unconscious” ( das Unbewußte ) and possible influences on his understanding it. I claim that for Rosenzweig, it is through unconscious individual becomes aware himself capable fulfilling longing to achieve self-fulfillment eventually take part in a collective redemption. The often perceived as mental sphere related trauma repression which defense mechanisms fantasies are evolved. Fantasies psychological tools allow cope with trauma, but they also “layers enclosedness,” illusions should be dissolved. Hence, unconscious, we find possibility liberation.