Negation
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Benjahung
Lacan argues that negation is a neurotic process that can only occur after a fundamental act of affirmation called Bejahung.
Foreclosure
Negation must be distinguished from foreclosure which is a kind of primitive negation prior to any possible Verneinung, a refusal of Bejahung itself.[2]
See Also
References
- ↑ Freud, Sigmund. "Negation," 1925. SE XIX, 235.
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book III. The Psychoses, 1955-56. Trans. Russell Grigg. London: Routledge, 1993. p. 46