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| [[German]]: ''[[affirmation|Bejahung]]''
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==Existence==
Whereas [[negation]] concerns what [[Freud]] called the "judgement of [[existence]]," ''[[Bejahung]]'' denotes something more fundamental, namely the primordial [[act]] of [[symbolization]] itself, the inclusion of something in the [[symbolic|symbolic universe]]. Only after a [[thing]] has been [[symbolize]]d (at the level of ''[[Bejahung]]'') can the [[value ]] of [[existence]] be attributed to it or not (''[[negation]]'').
==Foreclosure==
[[Lacan]] posits a basic alternative between ''[[Bejahung]]'' and the [[psychosis|psychotic mechanism]] he later calls "[[foreclosure]]". ''[[Bejahung]]'' designates a primordial inclusion of something in the [[symbolic]], whereas [[foreclosure]] is a primordial [[refusal ]] to include something -- the [[Name-of-the-Father]] -- in the [[symbolic]].<ref>{{S3}} p. 82</ref>
==See Also==
