Duane Rousselle, PhD, is a Canadian sociological theorist and practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst. He is a visiting associate professor of sociology at the University Colleges of Dublin and Cork.

Mark Gerard Murphy is an editor for the political journal and blog Taiwan Insight and a lecturer at St. Mary's University, Scotland, Gillis Centre, where he convenes courses on ethics, philosophy, and mystical theology and spirituality. His research interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and mystical theology. He has published in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Editor biography

Contributor biography

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Duane Rousselle

Section 1: Foundations

1. Ellie Ragland - "Who is Transferring What to Whom?"

2. Sergio Benvenuto - "On Sigmund Freud's 'Negation'"

Section 2: Drive & Desire

3. Colin Wright - "Turning Opportunities into Crises: The Lacanian Antidote to Toxic Positivity"

4. Todd McGowan - "The Ethics of the Death Drive"

5. Simone Medina Polo - "Humility and Humiliation of the Drive: Comedy and Tragedy in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis"

6. Mark Murphy - "Apophatic Psychoanalysis: The Plenitude of the Negative"

Section 3: Clinical Implications

7. Leon S. Brenner - "Negation Beyond Neurosis"

8. Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff - "Spiraling"

9. Aino-Marjatta Mäki - "What is Non-Negativisable Jouissance?: From Negation to a Singular Norm"

10. Ian Parker - "Badbeing: What's So Bad About Resistance in the Clinic?"

11. Stijn Vanheule - "Singularity and the Real that cannot be Written: On Lacan's Use of Frege in his Later Work"

Section 4: Spare Parts

12. Nicholas Balaisis - "'To Create, Perform, Produce Psychology From Scratch': Negativity in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerick"

13. Mark Featherstone - "(Un)Mourning the End of History"

14. Wanyoung Kim - "Trauma, Negativity, and Death in Spielrein, Heidegger and Buddhist Thought"

15. Joel Crombez - "Why Positive Thought Must be Negated in the Analytic Session: Negative Dialectic as Therapeutic Technique"

16. Juliette Tocino-Smith - "The Hau Must be Returned: The Exile of the Dead and Its Effects on the Western Imaginary"

Editor Biographies

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

DUANE ROUSSELLE

SECTION 1 Foundations

1 Who Is Transferring What to Whom? Resistance to Lacan

ELLIE RAGLAND

2 On Sigmund Freud's "Negation"

SERGIO BENVENUTO

SECTION 2 Drive and Desire

3 Turning Opportunities into Crises: The Lacanian Antidote to Toxic Positivity

COLIN WRIGHT

4 The Ethics of the Death Drive

TODD MCGOWAN

5 Humility and Humiliation of the Drive: Comedy and Tragedy in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

SIMONE A. MEDINA POLO

6 Apophatic Psychoanalysis: The Plenitude of the Negative

MARK GERARD MURPHY

SECTION 3 Clinical Implications

7 Negation beyond Neurosis

LEON S. BRENNER

8 Spiraling

CYRUS SAINT AMAND POLIAKOFF

9 What Is Non-Negativisable Jouissance?: From Negation to a Singular Norm

AINO-MARJATTA MÄKI

10 Badbeing: What's So Bad about Resistance in the Clinic?

IAN PARKER

11 Singularity and the Real that Cannot Be Written: On Lacan's Use of Frege in His Later Work

STIJN VANHEULE

SECTION 4 Spare Parts

12 To Create, Perform, Produce Psychology from Scratch: Negativity in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich

NICHOLAS BALAISIS

13 (Un)Mourning the End of History

MARK FEATHERSTONE

14 Trauma, Negativity, and Death Drive in Spielrein, Heidegger, and Buddhist Thought

WANYOUNG KIM

15 Why Positive Thought Must Be Negated in the Analytic Session: Negative Dialectics as Therapeutic Technique

JOEL MICHAEL CROMBEZ

16 The Hau Must Be Returned: The Exile of the Dead and Its Effects on the Western Imaginary

JULIETTE TOCINO-SMITH