Must Additive Inverse elements be opposite in sign?

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Is it possible to define a field $F=\left \{ 0, 1, a \right \}$

where the Additive Inverse condition is expressed as :

$x+x=0 \space \space \forall x\in F$ ?

My doubt comes from reading my book on cryptography talking informally about fields, and saying that in a field:

Every element has an additive inverse (for each x, this means there exists an element -x such that x + (-x) = 0).

However in my case there isn't the element $-a$.