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 praxis, the diagnostic…
Category: discourse
Bion uses the notion of a “matrix of thought which lies within the confines of the basic group, but not within the confines of the individual.”[1],p79 It is this matrix of thought with which the…
Consider the timespan of discretion within which a person takes up a role. The discretion can be expressed in terms of a span of complexity – the complexity being the scope of the circular linkages…
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…
Lacan describes how the discourse of Capitalism is formulated in relation to the discourse of the Master in Lacan-in-Italy, Milan. it involves inverting its relation between agency and truth as follows: This same inversion can…