On Freud's Negation / by Salman Akhtar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhtar, Salman, author.

Contributor:

O'Neil, Mary Kay.

Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-

Series:

Contemporary Freud.

Contemporary Freud : turning points & critical issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Negation (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2011.

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ever 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 developmental underpinnings of negation and the technical usefulness of the concept, including its implicit role in negative therapeutic reactions. A thought-provoking and conceptually illuminating volume.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; CONTEMPORARY FREUD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I "Negation" (1925h); PART II Discussion of "Negation"; Epilogue; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0-429-91685-X

0-429-47785-6

1-283-19626-3

9786613196262

1-84940-915-3

9780429477850

OCLC:

742333521