Freud describes the unconscious process as being primary and the pre-conscious/conscious process as being secondary. Consciousness involves an operation performed upon an already existing process; a primal process. The body of consciousness is a video camera moving through a liquid medium, like a fish. The body of consciousness translates the liquid as earth, air, water, and fire; the analogical is digitalized.

The primary unconscious process neither begins nor ends, it just morphs. The secondary conscious process begins and ends; wandering is translated as a journey; it began then and there and it ends here and now. The completeness, the wholeness of the conscious body is a span of time; birth and death. But the primal process keeps on dreaming before, during, and after that creation, that artifice, that story.

The unconscious microcosmic body is not an anti-body in relation to the conscious macrocosmic body. It is rather like the womb within which our hero either sleeps or wakes. The child is never actually outside the womb, he/she just thinks she/he is.