The yang/yin distinction between the Kleinian object and the Lacanian symptom is the relation to a ‘more’ mediated by the way the secondary process is itself organised. The diagram used to make this distinction is…
The reflexive process introduced in Reflexive Team Supervision is distinguished from a systemic shadow consulting process as formulated by Peter Hawkins. What is this difference? The shadow consulting process sets up a relation to the…
I have always found Kolb’s experiential learning cycle a useful way of approaching the place of reflection in learning, for example in reflective learning, learning as a subversive activity, or judging the quality of development….
Steen Visholm gave a presentation in June 2005 at the ISPSO International Conference in Baltimore, entitled The Promoted Sibling: Sibling Dynamics – a new dimension in the Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations. My work is as…
The listener faces three risks to the truth of his or her construction, derived from the way s/he reads what the speaker is saying in the ‘plus-one’ exercise. These risks will arise from three possible…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD How are we to approach the relationship to the symptom inherent in Freud’s third identification? Each project or enterprise makes assumptions about what effects are or are intended to…
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…
What, then, is the relation between the Kleinian ‘death instinct’ and drive functioning? In Lacanese, the narcissistic defence is formulated as a perverse structure , so that the ‘death instinct’ becomes an effect of superegoic…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD We start from the notion of the total transference situation: Different levels of interpretation can be distinguished: level 1 – ‘this is your father you are afraid of, and…
The previous blog spoke of the need, in working together, to pay attention to that about which we do not speak, the reflexive work is to use these silences to question our ways of interpreting…