With Adorno this type of negation will be a material rupture of the event, the moment in Kafka’s prose when the train (the object) is launched into the social. The negation-repetition succeeds to materialize itself into a singular object of negation. The second mode of negation was defined through Adorno’s propositions – as negation, rupturing the repetition. While negating itself, it, in fact, repeats itself. Its clear-cut mark is the erasure of the difference in relation to the opposite. We defined the first negation, using Freud’s theoretical framework, as negation-repetition. This is the transition that we shall label "negative anagnorisis" and, following the model of Aristotle, we shall use it to denote a transition from knowledge to a lack of knowledge.
The negative transformation of Gregor Samsa in „Metamorphosis“ into a half-monster and a half-non-animal is succeeded by a process of anagnorisis, which in our own reading represents a series of negations: "ungeheuer", "Ungeziefer", "Untier".
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