This is the abstract of a paper to be published in Socio-analysis this year: Social media enable individuals to link together to form networks. These networks can cut across the boundaries of existing organisations to…
Author: Philip Boxer
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…
From the perspective of its managers, a clinic has a clear boundary defined by its physical location, the layout of its premises and its relationships to its suppliers – the ‘classical’ view of an organisation…
Another thing that it has proved very difficult to grasp has been the difference between directed and collaborative systems of systems.[1] In the case of the directed system-of-systems, the formation of the system-of-systems may be under…
I have expended a great deal of effort in trying to elucidate the difference between (for example) It all makes sense, but who really cares about this stuff? Experience working with these ideas within organisations …
David Armstrong, in his 2012 Eric Miller Annual Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Terms of Engagement: Looking Backwards and Forwards at the Tavistock Enterprise‘, spoke about what seemed to him most disturbing and challenging within the wider social…
My critique of Bion in Bion, Lacan and the-thing-in-itself was that he approached the relation to the-thing-in-itself as a transcendent form of knowing that moved towards ‘knowing’ in a Platonic ideal form – hence without-memory-or-desire…
Susan Long, in her chapter on trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process [1], refers to Lacan [2] in stating that “many psychoanalytic schools of thought consider perversion as a specific set of…
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…
The previous blog provided a very abbreviated description of the successive crises of delegation that led religious authority to be devolved closer and closer to the individual. These crises of delegation confronted those at the top…