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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…

Betraying the citizen: social defences against innovation

by philipjboxer on June 1, 2014April 12, 2020

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…

On the refusal of (big-S) Symbolic castration

by philipjboxer on February 24, 2014April 12, 2020

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 philipjboxer on February 10, 2014April 19, 2020

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 philipjboxer on January 7, 2014April 12, 2020

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…

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…

To ‘contain’: signifiers, signifieds and Thirdness

by philipjboxer on December 26, 2013February 27, 2019

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…

Matrices, mattresses and the relation to the referent group

by philipjboxer on December 23, 2013August 20, 2018

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…

How does ‘sophisticated’ group mentality relate to basic assumption behaviour?

by philipjboxer on November 27, 2013August 20, 2018

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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