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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles (SUNY series in Hegelian Studies) - Hardcover

Ver Eecke, Wilfried

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9780791465998: Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles (SUNY series in Hegelian Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0791465993 ISBN 13: 9780791465998
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2005

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association

It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative Wilfried Ver Eecke constructs a comprehensive, lucid account of denial's psychological and philosophical dimensions while using Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles to help us understand this unavoidable aspect of human existence.

Ver Eecke acknowledges Hegel's claim that the road to truth is not a path of doubt, but a highway of despair, and argues, via Hegel's ontology of the person, that denial can be understood as a desiring being's defense against despair. By examining the role of no-saying in children, Freud's claims about freedom of the will and its necessary prerequisites, and Sophocles' Oedipus, Ver Eecke demonstrates the idea that denial is connected with situations in which the self-image of a person is threatened. He concludes with a colleague's autobiography to highlight the deep, tragic experiences that denial covers, and the enormous psychic work required to overcome profound denial, with the ultimate reward of experiencing oneself as the fulfillment of the promise of life.

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About the Author

At Georgetown University, Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor of Philosophy and also teaches courses in psychology and psychoanalysis. He is the coauthor (with Alphonse De Waelhens) of Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain and Saying "No":Its Meaning in Child Development, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Hegel.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791465993
ISBN 13 
9780791465998
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
190
Rating
  • 3.25 out of 5 stars
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