They were very Austrian in their negation of reality in fantasy.
Harald Leupold-Löwenthal, the head of the Vienna Freud Society, calls it the Austrian disease — the negation of reality in fantasy.
And so, although Baudrillard sees art proliferating everywhere, and writes in The Transparency of Evil that "talk about Art is increasing even more rapidly" (p. 14), the power of art — of art as adventure, art as negation of reality, art as redeeming illusion, art as another dimension and so on — has disappeared.
The poem, I believe, reflects reality, the reality of existence, the reality of life experience, the reality of life, the reality of the world, the reality of the universe, or the negation of that reality.
Baudrillard claims that the negation of a transcendent reality in the current media and technological society is a "perfect crime" that involves the "destruction of the real".
Shankara's metaphysics is based on a criterion of reality, which may be briefly formulated as follows: the real is that whose negation is not possible.
The influence of mysticism appears in his suggestion that the highest level of knowledge depends on the intervention of divine illumination and in his via negativa ("way of negation") for knowing God, viz., the reality of God is the negation of every material and human quality.
Thus they have step by step wiped out the affects claimed God to be the opposite of the evil, i.e., reality to consist in the negation of desires and affects (which is to say precisely in nothingness).
Sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise.
The whole nine seasons became one long tale about moving on from loss, accepting growth in pain, the reality of friends drifting apart and the negation of "one true loves".
However, if the movement of negation stops here at a one-sided negation of being (i.e., at negation of the independent substantial reality of things and the ego), and if the idea of "emptiness" is not itself emptied,[8] then we are left either with a pessimistic nihilism or with an ironically reified view of śūnyatā.
