“There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the unconscious by relational [psychoanalytic] theorists, as exemplified in the work of…James Grotstein and Michael Eigen as well as some of Stephen Mitchell’s later writing. But the picture of the unconscious that emerges from these authors is a different one from Freud’s unconscious and from the writing of many European analysts. The unconscious that emerges in these writings is one that is creative and generative, rather than one that is dangerous or destructive. And the emphasis of these authors is on harnessing unconscious forces or being guided by them, rather than taming or modulating them.”

— from Safran, J.D. (2006, p. 394). The relational unconscious, the enchanted interior, and the return of the repressed. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 42: 393-412.