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On vagueness and its conservation

by philipjboxer on July 5, 2014April 12, 2020

The previous blog on What makes an economy a ‘libidinal economy’? spoke of the libidinal economy of a network as “a form of social organization that supported forms of emancipation that promised not a ‘full…

What makes an economy a ‘libidinal economy’?

by philipjboxer on July 2, 2014April 12, 2020

The concept of ‘libidinal investment’ has come up before, for example in The Promoted Sibling as an expression of libidinal investment, or in Getting caught ‘inside’ particular forms of Thirdness as an effect of unconscious…

Getting caught ‘inside’ particular forms of Thirdness as an effect of unconscious valency

by philipjboxer on January 5, 2014August 20, 2018

This series of blogs started with a difficulty faced at a research colloquium in addressing the effects of libidinal investment on the way the participants ‘were’ in language.  We were getting caught ‘inside’ particular forms…

Managing the risks of social disruption

by philipjboxer on April 16, 2013April 12, 2020

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…

Difficulties with the use of Lacan in Susan Long’s ‘The Perverse Organisation’

by philipjboxer on June 14, 2012December 5, 2018

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…

Crises of delegation in recognising new truths

by philipjboxer on December 6, 2011April 19, 2020

I hope you will forgive the heretical direction of this blog (as well as its bias towards an English experience!), but I want to pick up on ‘by what authority are we to follow‘ by…

Freud’s third identification – identification to a symptom

by philipjboxer on August 10, 2005

by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The third form of identification distinguished by Freud in Group Psychology is formed not by identifying with some one or some way of thinking, but rather with a situation…

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