⁶⁹ There is some discussion of approaches to Descartes that invoke the ‘subject’ in my Early Modern French Thought, 53–4, 93–9. That Descartes’s conception of the thinking self excludes (and is vitiated by its failure to include) the possibility of unconscious thoughts is not to be taken for granted. The subject is magisterially treated in Geneviève Lewis, Le Problème de l’inconscient et le cartésianisme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1950).