" The meaning is 'perceived' and the Ruckgestaltung is a 'perception.' This means: there is a germination of what will have been understood. (Insight and Aha Erlebnis)--And that means: the perception (the first one) is of itself an openness upon a field of Gestaltungen--And that means: perception is unconsciousness. What is the unconscious? What functions as a pivot, an existential, and in this sense, is and is not perceived. For one perceives only figures upon levels--And one perceives them only be relation to the level, which therefore is unperceived.--The perception of the level: always between the objects, it is that about which...The occult in psychoanalysis (the unconscious) is of this sort. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Visible and the Invisible