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…
Category: objects
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…