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…
Category: double subjection
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 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…
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…
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…
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…