Negation (psychoanalysis)
Negation is a technical term in psychoanalysis that is to be distinguished from the concept of repression . Sigmund Freud defined the negation as follows:
“A repressed idea or thought content can penetrate into consciousness , provided that it can be denied . The negation is a way of taking note of what has been repressed, actually already an abolition of the repression, but of course not an acceptance of the repressed. [...]. With the help of negation, only one consequence of the process of repression is reversed, namely that the content of its imagination does not reach consciousness. The result is a kind of intellectual assumption of the repressed with the continuation of the essential part of the repression. "
Web links
- Freud, The Negation : Scan of the first publication (PDF file; 3.31 MB)
- Freud, The Negation : Bilingual Version - German and French
- Freud glossary, sv negation
- Laurent Danon Boileau: Negation. In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigmund Freud, Die Verneinung (1925), online at textlog.de .