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What might it mean to ‘Confront the Real Issues’?

by philipjboxer on June 11, 2020June 15, 2020

The subtitle of Rabbi Tony Bayfield’s book on ‘Being Jewish Today‘ is “Confronting the Real Issues”. What might ‘the Real’ mean within the context of Lacan’s work? The diasporic way is referenced early in the…

Betraying the citizen: social defences against innovation

by philipjboxer on June 1, 2014April 12, 2020

Affordable healthcare is a right of each citizen, not a privilege for those who can afford it. The quote refers to the intent behind President Obama’s 2010 signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The…

To ‘contain’: signifiers, signifieds and Thirdness

by philipjboxer on December 26, 2013February 27, 2019

The previous four blogs on the missing subject-ego relation, symbol formation, sophisticated groups and matrices of thought raise a question of how we are to understand ‘container’ in a structural sense. This blog aims to…

How does ‘sophisticated’ group mentality relate to basic assumption behaviour?

by philipjboxer on November 27, 2013August 20, 2018

The previous blog examined how the process of symbol formation could be read using a 4-term relation between subject, ego, object-signifier and signified-object. In this translation, the ego was a particular organisation of object-relating.  It…

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