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| + | In his "Reply to Jean Hyppolite's commentary on Freud's ''Negation''"<ref>Lacan. 1954b.</ref> [[Lacan]] describes a primordial act of affirmation which is logically prior to any act of [[negation]]. | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] uses [[Freud]]'s German term, ''[[Bejahung]]'' ('[[affirmation]]') to denote this primordial affirmation.<ref>{{Ec}} p.387</ref> | ||
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| + | 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]] universe. | ||
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| + | 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]]''). | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] posits a basic alternative between ''[[Bejahung]]'' and the [[psychotic]] mechanism he later calls '[[foreclosure]]'. | ||
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| + | ''[[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> | ||
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Revision as of 20:56, 7 July 2006
In his "Reply to Jean Hyppolite's commentary on Freud's Negation"[1] Lacan describes a primordial act of affirmation which is logically prior to any act of negation.
Lacan uses Freud's German term, Bejahung ('affirmation') to denote this primordial affirmation.[2]
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 universe.
Only after a thing has been symbolized (at the level of Bejahung) can the value of existence be attributed to it or not (negation).
Lacan posits a basic alternative between Bejahung and the 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.[3]
See Also
References
- ↑ Lacan. 1954b.
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits. Paris: Seuil, 1966. p.387
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book III. The Psychoses, 1955-56. Trans. Russell Grigg. London: Routledge, 1993. p.82
