The doomed failure of active forgetting and the ironic counterproductive effect of the deepening of the memory during the active forgetting process is a typical counterproductive case. Apart from being an emotional issue as memory is independent of the control of will (Talay, 2019), This counterproductive effect is generated by the will of active forgetting, as forgetting intentions can result from a counter-will of unwillingness to forget in the subconscious (Freud, 1979).

To look closely into the paradox of active forgetting, a set of analogy experiments is conducted. I sorted out metaphors from different theories in active forgetting: suppression (Freud,1979), shutting doors to block intruders (Nietzsche,2013), indigestion (Nietzsche,2013), etc., and simulated these metaphors in practice to experience the confrontations taking place within these actions.
All actions in this process are the power of negation. As all negation is the negation towards something rather than a void, in applying the force of negation to all objects I feel a reactionary force from the existence of the object, it is me that confirmed their existence, until then, they've been quietly asserting their existence like “I’m here... I’m here...”. My negations of them are like stamping with legitimacy on them.