Sigmund Freud, “Negation,” in On Metapsychology, The Pelican Freud Library, vol.11 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977), 435–442.
Freud, “Negation,” 438.
“The status of the unconscious, which, as I have shown, is so fragile on the ontic plane, is ethical. In his thirst for truth, Freud says, Whatever it is, I must go there, because, somewhere, this unconscious reveals itself.” Jacques Lacan,The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, trans. Alan Sheridan (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987), 33.
Ibid., 32.
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“Negation,” 439.
Ibid.
“But it is evident that a precondition for the setting up of reality-testing is that objects shall have been lost which once brought real satisfaction.”
“Negation,” 440.
And, by the way, we should recognize in this place of difference the very gap of Urverdrängung (primal repression) as the condition and the lodestar of all subsequent repressions.
“The first and immediate aim, therefore, of reality testing is, not to find an object in real perception which corresponds to the one presented, but to refind such an object, to convince oneself that it is still there.”