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Month: November 2013

How does ‘sophisticated’ group mentality relate to basic assumption behaviour?

by Philip Boxer on November 27, 2013November 15, 2022

The previous blog examined how the process of symbol formation could be read using a 4-term relation between subject, ego, object-signifier and signified-object. In this translation, the ego was a particular organisation of object-relating.  It…

Reading ‘symbol formation’ as a 4-term relation

by Philip Boxer on November 20, 2013November 15, 2022

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 Philip Boxer on November 19, 2013November 15, 2022

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…

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