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What does it mean ‘not to give ground to one’s desire’?

by Philip Boxer on February 26, 2024

Question: What is meant by not to “give ground to one’s desire.” I recognize the discussion of Antigone and that she stays with what she believes is right despite Creon’s decree.[1] Does giving ground to…

Meeting the challenge of impotence

by Philip Boxer on January 25, 2023December 7, 2023

by Philip Boxer An earlier blog on dilemmas as drivers of change introduced the notion of an impossibility lying between the horns of a dilemma:   These impossibilities emerge in the course of our efforts…

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…

Working with a transference to the work

by Philip Boxer on May 13, 2020January 26, 2023

by Philip Boxer Two groups are meeting virtually online every few weeks.  Group S shares journal material with each other between meetings.  Group N does not.  The journals themselves are ‘split-screen’, tracking participants’ progress on…

The small-s/Big-S distinction and its relation to the structure of père-version

by Philip Boxer on December 13, 2016November 15, 2022

by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD I am writing this blog to clarify the implications of the distinction between the small-s symbolic and the big-S Symbolic which is present in a number of previous blogs: Difficulties…

On psychoanalysing organisations and using psychoanalytic language: are we entering a third epoch?

by Philip Boxer on October 8, 2016August 14, 2023

by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Yiannis Gabriel has written a paper on psychoanalysis and organisation studies.[1] He usefully distinguishes two epochs: A first epoch, defined by the practice of clinicians ‘psychoanalysing organisations’ through the metaphor…

The burden imposed by the requirements for abstract thought

by Philip Boxer on August 9, 2016

by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD A colleague of mine, Larry Hirschhorn, had the following to say about his experience of the difficulties of ISPSO members speaking to each other about their differing readings of…

On the refusal of (big-S) Symbolic castration

by Philip Boxer on February 24, 2014

In considering what we can learn from Lance Armstrong, I argued that aside from the moral outrage, we needed to consider if he has something to teach us about the nature of situational resistance –…

What can we learn from Lance Armstrong?

by Philip Boxer on February 10, 2014August 14, 2023

I am particularly interested in organisations that must operate in turbulent environments, in which client-customers must be responded to one-by-one, each demanding a different response designed to address their particular situation. We see the need…

Counter-resistance is always on the side of the supplier-provider

by Philip Boxer on January 7, 2014

The theory of the enterprise developed based on a largely static and ‘closed’ ontology. This meant that the top management of such an enterprise was assumed to be committed to a form of mental model…

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