#autonega

• To self-deny — To deny oneself; to contest, reject, or invalidate one's own existence, value, identity, or one's own statements and principles. In a philosophical sense, it describes the dialectical action through which a concept or a subject transforms or evolves by contradicting its own initial state, while in psychology it reflects a defense mechanism or a deep tendency to reject one's own needs and impulses.
• Self-negation — The act of self-denying and its result; a structural or psychic process through which a subject, principle, or system negates its own validity, identity, or substance. In modern philosophical theories, it represents a crucial moment in the development of ideas, where internal contradiction becomes the engine of evolution, while clinically it is associated with severe emotional self-sabotage.
• Self-negated — Having been rejected, invalidated, or canceled by itself; a system, concept, statement, or individual that has undergone a process of self-negation, thereby losing its initial validity or former identity. In logic and epistemology, it describes a paradoxical state where the constitutive terms of a theoretical structure mutually cancel each other out by their very utterance.