Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Reginald Lilly reviews Wilfried Ver Eecke, Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles (SUNY Press, 2006), at Philosophical Reviews (11.06.2006) :

In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative, Professor Ver Eecke has written a very clear, erudite study in psychoanalytic theory that draws on, principally, Hegel's philosophy to explore the Freudian conception of denial. Perhaps due to this influence, the book could well be described as an account -- replete with an extensive case study -- of the logical and anthropological possibility of self-knowledge within a psychoanalytic context, the possibility of moving from a state of denial and self-alienation to a self that is free in knowing itself as an individual.