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Meeting the challenge of impotence

by Philip Boxer on January 25, 2023January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer An earlier blog on dilemmas as drivers of change introduced the notion of an impossibility lying between the horns of a dilemma: These impossibilities emerge in the course of our efforts to…

How are we to distinguish a ‘repressed unconscious’ from a ‘radically unconscious’?

by Philip Boxer on November 17, 2022January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer Here is Freud’s introduction to ‘The Unconscious’: “We have learnt from psychoanalysis that the essence of the process of repression lies, not in putting an end to, in annihilating, the idea which…

Why a ‘Lacanian’ reading of the unconscious?

by Philip Boxer on November 17, 2022January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer The double challenge of holding three asymmetries The double challenge (Boxer 2004) is like a doubling of Harold Bridger’s double task (Bridger 1990). The value-creating relation to the demand-side (parallel to the…

The Libidinal Economy of Discourses and the challenges of maladaptation

by Philip Boxer on December 20, 2020January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer The following note summarizes the current state of development of the Libidinal Economy of Discourses (LEoD).  It covers my initial formulation, the conditions under which I consider it to become a necessary…

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

by Philip Boxer on June 11, 2020January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer 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…

Working with a transference to the work

by Philip Boxer on May 13, 2020January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer Two groups are meeting virtually online every few weeks.  Group S shares journal material with each other between meetings.  Group N does not.  The journals themselves are ‘split-screen’, tracking participants’ progress on…

What are we thinking of when we speak of ‘The Real’?

by Philip Boxer on March 20, 2020November 15, 2022

I read this article in The Guardian yesterday (Vidal 2020). The point he is making is that it is humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that is creating the conditions for new viruses and diseases such as…

What are some good critical books on this Lacanese thinking?

by Philip Boxer on March 20, 2020

What are some good critical books on Lacan’s understanding of transference, counter-transference and the analyst-analysand relationship? This is always a very difficult question because of the way Lacan’s ‘works’ moved through different phases so that,…

How did Lacan differ from Freud in his handling of the analyst-analysand relation?

by Philip Boxer on March 20, 2020

The understanding of the relationship between the analysand and analyst shifted over time for both Freud and Lacan. How did Lacan differ from Freud in his handling of the analyst-analysand relation? One difference lies in…

What did Lacan mean in saying that automatic repetition was no longer related to transference?

by Philip Boxer on March 20, 2020

In his seminar on transference, Lacan elaborated that the automatic repetition was no longer related to transference. What did Lacan mean? Lacan is not saying that automatic repetition is no longer related to transference.  He…

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