On Freud''s Negation

List of contents

Contemporary Freud , Contemporary Freud , Introduction , “Negation” (1925h) , Discussion of “Negation” , Rejection, refusal, denial: developing capacities for negation , On “Negation”: some reflections following in Freud's wake , The negative therapeutic reaction: review, update, and clinical illustration , The work of the negative and hallucinatory activity (negative hallucination) , The Oedipus of the id: the unrepresentable negative and the transformational processes of analysis , The negative in dreams , The effects of negation on the analyst–analysand relationship: the paradoxes of narcissism , From psychic holes to psychic representations , Negation, negative capability, and the work of creativity , Epilogue

About the author

Salman Akhtar

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. This book provides contemporary perspectives on the developmental underpinnings of negation and the technical usefulness of the concept.

Product details

• Authors: Salman O''''neil Akhtar, Mary Kay Akhtar O''''neil
• Assisted by: Salman Akhtar (Editor), Mary Kay O'Neil (Editor), O'Neil Mary Kay (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367100988
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10098-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology