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…
How am I to understand what an organisation is? Whatever my notion is will inform the way in which I approach the question of intervention. One way of approaching the distinctiveness of a Lacanian reading of…