On Freud's Negation

Taylor & Francis

On Freud's \""Negation\""Author(s): Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Karnac Books\nISBN-13: 9781780490250, 978-1780490250\nSynopsis\nEver since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak. Or, perhaps, it is better to term such mental contents as the presence in the form of absence. These two ways of conceptualizing Freud's negation have led to a panoply of ideas that include negative hallucination, psychic holes, negative narcissism, selfishly motivated erasure of the Other, and the so-called \""work of the negative\"". This volume elucidates these concepts and refines the distinction between Freud's negation and subsequently described mental mechanisms of denial, repudiation, isolation, and undoing. The book also provides contemporary perspectives on the deve.