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If you name me, you negate me — Be Yourself Blog Jun 25, 2017 · “ If you name me, you negate me. By giving me a name, a label, you negate all the other things I could possibly be. ” — Søren Kierkegaard "Nice to meet you! What do you do?" How many times have you fielded that question? Without fail, this used to create a cascade of thoughts in me that went something like this: Once you label me, you negate me | The BMJ Oct 10, 2018 · If there was ever a scenario to which the quote, “Once you label me, you negate me,” attributed to Kierkegaard, was relevant, this is it. 1 Cancer is a single word that carries an impossible breadth of meaning. Any renaming risks the same failure to communicate nuance—so why change? Did Kierkegaard really say, "If you label me, you negate me?" To put me in this whole you imagine is to negate me. Who am I? I am an intensity of feeling in relation with beings, and particularly with the Divine Being, who excites my desire, my kno...