This is the first English translation of Le Travail du Negatif by the French psychoanalyst and thinker Andre Green. Green draws our attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects that are not normally associated with it: dream work, the work of mourning, identification etc. The kernel of Green's argument is that the development of the ego and any experiencing of ourselves as subjects has to be achieved against an essential background of loss and absence. The phrase work of the negative refers to how we do or do not cope with this inevitability of lacking what we want.
- ISBN10 1853434604
- ISBN13 9781853434600
- Publish Date 1 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Free Association Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 420
- Language English