Question: What is meant by not to “give ground to one’s desire.” I recognize the discussion of Antigone and that she stays with what she believes is right despite Creon’s decree.[1] Does giving ground to…
Zizek completed a second doctorate in 1986 under Jacques-Alain Miller, entitled “La philosophie entre le symptom et le fantasme”. His reading of Lacan precedes Jacques-Alain Miller’s switching away in 2005 from the ‘structuralist’ aspect of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…