The Differential Relationship Between the Primitive Affirmation and the Secondary Negation of Desire

David Frum: Is it appropriate to think of the know as irreducible and so far as it brings in the split brilliant and yes? This no would be irreducibly. But guess what? It is hella-repressibleirreducible Yes, but hella- repressible. No goes from affirmation to negation to repression, gradually placed under erasure, gradually forgotten. And this is why it's so angst provoking when the desire is big other shows up and says, shape up and show me your balls. Show me your castrated. I want your lack.