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"[[Negation]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[dénégation]]'')
==Sigmund Freud==For [[Freud]] the term "[[negation]]"" ([[Ger]]. ''[[Verneinung]]'') meant both logical [[negation ]] and the action of [[denial]].<ref>Freud. 1925h.</ref>
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] takes up [[Freud]]'s concept of [[negation]] in his [[seminar]] of 1953-4 and in his [[seminar]] of 1955-6.
[[Lacan]] argues that [[negation]] is a [[neurotic]] process that can only occur after a fundamental [[act ]] of affirmation called ''[[Bejahung]]''.
[[Negation]] must be distinguished from [[foreclosure]] which is a kind of primitive [[negation]] prior to any possible ''[[Verneinung]]'', a refusal of ''[[Bejahung]]'' itself.<ref>{{S3}} p.46</ref>
==See Also==
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Sigmund FreudDictionary]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
