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Working with the subject’s relation to the unconscious within the context of an organisation and its ecosystem

by philipjboxer on April 18, 2016

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…

Anxiety and Innovation – working with the beyond of double subjection

by philipjboxer on July 16, 2013April 19, 2020

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…

When should critical realists care about drive structure?

by philipjboxer on January 11, 2012April 12, 2020

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…

Structural ‘gaps’ – the wigo/wiRgo relation

by philipjboxer on March 27, 2007August 14, 2018

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…

The Promoted Sibling as an expression of libidinal investment

by philipjboxer on November 29, 2005August 14, 2018

Steen Visholm gave a presentation in June 2005 at the ISPSO International Conference in Baltimore, entitled The Promoted Sibling: Sibling Dynamics – a new dimension in the Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations. My work is as…

Being, between two deaths

by philipjboxer on February 7, 2005August 14, 2018

What, then, is the relation between the Kleinian ‘death instinct’ and drive functioning? In Lacanese, the narcissistic defence is formulated as a perverse structure , so that the ‘death instinct’ becomes an effect of superegoic…

The relation to drive structure

by philipjboxer on February 6, 2005August 14, 2018

by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD We start from the notion of the total transference situation: Different levels of interpretation can be distinguished: level 1 – ‘this is your father you are afraid of, and…

The question(ing) of faith

by philipjboxer on February 5, 2005

The previous blog spoke of the need, in working together, to pay attention to that about which we do not speak, the reflexive work is to use these silences to question our ways of interpreting…

The structure of a Lacanian ‘discourse’

by philipjboxer on March 23, 1997February 14, 2019

In the following, I show the directedness of the edges of the topology of Freud’s basic schema as described by Lacan, and add the terms he used for the four ‘places’ in the topology of…

The basic schema of the Project

by philipjboxer on March 22, 1997August 14, 2018

Fundamental to the Project is the notion of Q – energy within the system. Between Q and Q in the external world are Q-screens, which are impermeable to Q. Two kinds of contact-barrier are then…

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