On the unconscious nature of Because motives : some considerations on the Unconscious in Alfred Schutz

This paper is divided into two parts. The first traces the conceptual development of because motives, while simultaneously endeavouring to grasp the notion of the unconscious revealed in Schutz's analysis. The author refers to Leibniz's theory of petites perceptions and Freud's theory of the unconscious; theories whose respective characteristics are somehow compared, integrated and thus juxtaposed with the characteristics of because motives. The second part of the paper raises the question why Schutz, in his analysis of motives and unconscious behaviour, does not refer to Husserl's conception of the unconscious [Publisher's text].