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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…

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…

Betraying the citizen: social defences against innovation

by Philip Boxer on June 1, 2014

Affordable healthcare is a right of each citizen, not a privilege for those who can afford it. The quote refers to the intent behind President Obama’s 2010 signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The…

To ‘contain’: signifiers, signifieds and Thirdness

by Philip Boxer on December 26, 2013November 15, 2022

The previous four blogs on the missing subject-ego relation, symbol formation, sophisticated groups and matrices of thought raise a question of how we are to understand ‘container’ in a structural sense. This blog aims to…

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…

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