At Georgetown University, Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor of Philosophy and also teaches courses in psychology and psychoanalysis. He is the coauthor (with Alphonse De Waelhens) of Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain and Saying "No":Its Meaning in Child Development, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Hegel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The Complex Phenomenon of Denial2. The Epistemological Problem of Self-description in Freudian Psychoanalysis3. Denial and Hegel’s Philosophical Anthropology4. Denial and Hegel’s Theory of the Will5. A Child’s No-Saying: A Step towards Independence6. Oedipus, the King: How and How not to Undo a Denial7. Denial, Metaphor, the Symbolic, and Freedom: The Ontological Dimensions of Denial ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

At Georgetown University, Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor of Philosophy and also teaches courses in psychology and psychoanalysis. He is the coauthor (with Alphonse De Waelhens) of Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain and Saying "No":Its Meaning in Child Development, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Hegel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The Complex Phenomenon of Denial2. The Epistemological Problem of Self-description in Freudian Psychoanalysis3. Denial and Hegel’s Philosophical Anthropology4. Denial and Hegel’s Theory of the Will5. A Child’s No-Saying: A Step towards Independence6. Oedipus, the King: How and How not to Undo a Denial7. Denial, Metaphor, the Symbolic, and Freedom: The Ontological Dimensions of Denial ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

At Georgetown University, Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor of Philosophy and also teaches courses in psychology and psychoanalysis. He is the coauthor (with Alphonse De Waelhens) of Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain and Saying "No":Its Meaning in Child Development, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Hegel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The Complex Phenomenon of Denial2. The Epistemological Problem of Self-description in Freudian Psychoanalysis3. Denial and Hegel’s Philosophical Anthropology4. Denial and Hegel’s Theory of the Will5. A Child’s No-Saying: A Step towards Independence6. Oedipus, the King: How and How not to Undo a Denial7. Denial, Metaphor, the Symbolic, and Freedom: The Ontological Dimensions of Denial ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex