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nonaffirmation en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + affirmation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
    • In general, the analyst's nonaffirmation of the patient's immediate sense of himself, together with his evident appreciation of a deeper potential, tends to dislodge the patient from the taken-for-granted texture of the immediate experience and edges him toward abstracting from his wishes and assumptions into a slightly more objectivized view of himself in action. 2013, Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky, Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill, page 168: