ABSTRACT
The name of an artist or a work of art, a literary text, picture, or piece of music might appear in the form of an Einfall (idea) during a session. Thus, instead of using negation to aid insight of the repressed by accepting the representation, the use of aesthetic evocation is regressive and reduced to its affective force, placed in the service of disavowal. Whereas with negation the repressed is accepted through a disjunction of affect and representation, aesthetic emotion binds representation to affect quite tightly. Resistance alternates between repression and working through, between progress and negation. For example, when aesthetic evocation functioning as negation allows access to still repressed representations, or when aesthetic emotion serving disavowal reveals its links with psychic creativity; a piece of the complex world resting on the internalisation of the complex, enigmatic, and sexual world of language.
