Ricoeur, Consciousness is not a given but a task

"Everything that can be said about consciousness after Freud seems to me to be contained in the following formula: Consciousness is not a given but a task." - by posing such a question we acquire a knowledge about the unconscious which is no longer realist but dialectical. Paul Ricoeur, "Consciousness and the Unconscious," in The Conflict of Interpretations, pp. 99-120. (See notes in my file, Coelho/Ricoeur, CI 05, Consciousness and the Unconscious.)