by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD I am writing this blog to clarify the implications of the distinction between the small-s symbolic and the big-S Symbolic which is present in a number of previous blogs: Difficulties…
Category: drive functioning
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The plus-one process starts with the narrating of an originating situation[1], taken by the speaker to present some kind of challenge. The process generates three metaphors that point towards…
by Philip Boxer Lacan returns to Freud’s 4-part structure of the drive: a gap[1] – an experienced edge or limit to being able to give meaning; an object[2] – some structuring of behavior that is related…
In considering what we can learn from Lance Armstrong, I argued that aside from the moral outrage, we needed to consider if he has something to teach us about the nature of situational resistance –…
I am particularly interested in organisations that must operate in turbulent environments, in which client-customers must be responded to one-by-one, each demanding a different response designed to address their particular situation. We see the need…
The following is the abstract of a paper given at a Research Colloquium in Oxford on Unconscious Defences against Anxiety. The internet, like the printing press, railways and the telephone, has changed the way economies…
This is the abstract of the paper presented at the 2013 Paris Conference – Reworking Lacan at Work. The term ‘ex-sist’ is used to emphasize the Latin derivation of ‘exist’ from ex-(s)istere, to stand outside (in contradistinction…
Susan Long, in her chapter on trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process [1], refers to Lacan [2] in stating that “many psychoanalytic schools of thought consider perversion as a specific set of…
This Lacanticles blog aims to share the background thinking to the blogs on asymmetric design and asymmetric leadership. Recently I was asked: “What additional benefit is to be derived from the formalisations in Lacanticles? What…
Implicit in the Quadripod is a relationship between the what-is-going-on (wigo) of journeys across the railway network, and the what-is-Really-going-on (wiRgo) of the United Kingdom as a thing-in-itself. This relationship between wigo and wiRgo is…