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Freud, S. The Denial—During analysis the correct association is often brought out of the unconscious in the form of a denial. “You ask who this person is in the dream. It is not the mother.” Or it may be obtained by asking the patient what is the most improbable interpretation that he can think of. His answer will be the correct one. The denial may be projected upon the analyst, as for example, “You will think I want to say something insulting, but I have no such intention.” A repressed idea or thought content can press through to consciousness on condition that it permits denial of itself. Denial represents a release of the repressed content, but not its acceptance. The denial is the intellectual substitute for repression, its trade mark or certificate of origin, like the label, “made in Germany”. By the symbol of denial, thought frees itself from the limitations of repression and concerns itself with content which is indispensable to the performance of its duty.
The function of judgment is to meet two decisions. It has to agree to or deny the attribute of a thing, and it has to confirm or disavow the