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Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Negation Essay - Is There a Negation Right of Negation?

I was thinking about all the different ways that ignorance, you know, denial and then apathy because I think all three of those kinds of things are so hard. There's also in the demand to say anything that comes to mind there's also this demand to ignore the whether it be the super ego or the inhibitive Compulsion to stop from saying something. Oh, and in just the negation essay, the fact of the symbol of negation right of denial is endows thinking with the with a measure of freedom from the consequences of repression  so there's like ignorance is very in a certain clinical sense Important to Freudian technique if that makes any sense.

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