On Freud's "Negation" / edited by Mary Kay O'Neil & Salman Akhtar.

COVER; CONTENTS; CONTEMPORARY FREUD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I "Negation" (1925h); PART II Discussion of "Negation"; 1 Rejection, refusal, denial: developing capacities for negation; 2 On "Negation": some reflections following in Freud's wake; 3 The negative therapeutic reaction: review, update, and clinical illustration; 4 The work of the negative and hallucinatory activity (negative hallucination); 5 The Oedipus of the id: the unrepresentable negative and the transformational processes of analysis; 6 The negative in dreams.

7 The effects of negation on the analyst-analysand relationship: the paradoxes of narcissism8 From psychic holes to psychic representations; 9 Negation, negative capability, and the work of creativity; Epilogue; REFERENCES; INDEX.

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 disti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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