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…
The significance of trauma is that it is that which refuses to be known, not only because to remember the thing would be to be terrified, but also because there is something about it that…
Opening up the anxiety that the leader carries on behalf of the organisation is opening up second order/systemic/‘Kierkegaard’ anxiety … This is Kierkegaard’s ‘concept of anxiety’ (Princeton University Press, 1980), in which freedom appears before…
The individual can use a role as a defence against anxiety (Isabel Menzies Lyth 1988, “The Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety”, in Containing Anxiety in Institutions, Free Associations, London). For example,…
In the following, I show the directedness of the edges of the topology of Freud’s basic schema as described by Lacan, and add the terms he used for the four ‘places’ in the topology of…
Fundamental to the Project is the notion of Q – energy within the system. Between Q and Q in the external world are Q-screens, which are impermeable to Q. Two kinds of contact-barrier are then…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The popular understanding of Freud’s project is as it appears at the beginning of the text – as a kind of biologistically deterministic psychology: “The intention is to furnish…