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An analysis of the concepts of negativity & the feminine, & their formation into an ethic in the works of Julia Kristeva, with particular reference to her ambivalent relation to the theories of Jacques Lacan, which form the psychoanalytic roots of her formulation. It is suggested that Kristeva's & Lacan's use of gender categories is flawed through their failure to recognize "She, the Other of phallocentric discourse," within the categories of masculine/feminine themselves. A deconstruction of the fully gender-differentiated subject sheds new light on the normative dimension of gender differentiation. It is argued that the Oedipal myth continues to depend on humans' psyches, social lives, & the predominance of identity-bound thought; particular reference is made to Theodor Adorno's ideas on identitarian thought & his rejection of the Hegelian identity-logical exclusion of otherness. It is suggested that the rigid categories of the structuralist-psychoanalytic account of gender be abandoned, calling to attention its own insights into the mediating role played by language. K. Hyatt

The term negativity in communication science refers to a news factor and to a tendency of media coverage. To put it simply, negativity as a news factor means that negative events (like controversies, conflicts, aggression, damage and so on) or so-called 'bad news' is more newsworthy than good ones (e.g., Galtung & Ruge, 1965). However, negativity is quite a complex concept and it is defined differently in research depending on the focus of the study. Lengauer et al. (2011) differentiate between actor-related and frame-related dimensions of negativity. At the 'actor level', negativity describes the tonality directed towards individual actors (for example political representatives or their organizations) in media coverage. At the 'frame-related level', negativity describes, for example, the overall tonality of the news story (predominantly negative), a pessimistic outlook in the story and/or a story focus on conflict or incapability and misconduct (Lengauer et al., 2011, pp. 183-185). Field of application/theoretical foundation: Negativity is widely analyzed in communication studies. The focus of this article lies on negativity in election (campaign) coverage. Furthermore, negativity (as a news factor) is often analyzed in news value studies respectively studies that analyze journalistic news selection criteria, in news bias studies as well as in video/media malaise or framing research (and others). References/combination with other methods of data collection: The analysis of negativity in media coverage may be combined or compared with journalist and population surveys (for example in news value studies or in framing research) as well as with so called "extra media data" (Rosengren, 1970, p. 96) (for example in news bias research). Furthermore, experimental studies that analyze the potential effects of a negative tonality of news coverage on recipients are possible. Example: The concept of negativity lacks an agreed-upon operationalization. Lengauer et al. (2011) review and systematize existing concepts and ...

The concepts of the first chapter of Capital are there presented abstractly. At a more concrete level 'value', 'abstract labour', and 'socially necessary Labour time' must be situated in the capital relation; e.g. the time that is 'socially necessary' is that in which capital 'pumps out' labour. The essentially contested expropriation of the workers' powers by capital leads to a new understanding of the labour theory of value as a dialectic of negativity. Value is the shape of reified labour, the outcome of class struggle in production.