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What might make translation difficult from a Lacanian reading to a Kleinian reading of Freud?

by philipjboxer on May 29, 2015April 12, 2020

The following exchange between Simon and Mike shows us something of the difficulty of translating between Kleinian and Lacanian readings: Simon: Thanks Mike for thought provoking quotes about the Czech Pavilion Quote on illusions.[1] Freeing…

Getting caught ‘inside’ particular forms of Thirdness as an effect of unconscious valency

by philipjboxer on January 5, 2014August 20, 2018

This series of blogs started with a difficulty faced at a research colloquium in addressing the effects of libidinal investment on the way the participants ‘were’ in language.  We were getting caught ‘inside’ particular forms…

Reading ‘symbol formation’ as a 4-term relation

by philipjboxer on November 20, 2013April 12, 2020

The previous blog on ‘the missing subject-ego relation’ described how a 3-term relation was used by Hanna Segal to describe symbol formation – a relation between ego, object and symbol – while her text[1] speaks…

The missing subject-ego relation in true symbolism, symbolic equation and object-relations

by philipjboxer on November 19, 2013April 19, 2020

I recently participated in a research colloquium organized by the Independent Social Research Foundation and Tavistock Consulting, which revisited Isabel Menzies-Lyth’s  thesis on the ‘Unconscious Defences against Anxiety’. My own contribution to this was a…

THE environment does not ex-sist: engendering ‘boundary’ as the object of psychoanalytic study

by philipjboxer on January 5, 2013April 12, 2020

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…

The social object – distinguishing Kleinian, ‘real’ and Lacanian objects

by philipjboxer on June 30, 2011April 12, 2020

Social objects, for example in social interaction design or in the enterprise, are those things around which collaborations and networks form – online they might be such things as blogs, photos, Facebook postings or web…

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