Competing in ecosystems through triple-loop learning: Working in relation to what is going on below-the-surface and its ‘beyond’

1. Competing in Ecosystems:
working in relation to what is going
on below-the-surface and its
‘beyond’
Dr Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD
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2. PART I – WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
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3. Competing within an ecosystem
The impact of tempo
The Inpatients of
the Ward
Service suppliers to The Ward The Ward
Hospital ecosystem
Demand tempo:
The rate at which new forms of
demand need to be
satisfactorily addressed
Service supplier 1
Service supplier 2
sub-contract
sub-contract
Acquisition tempo:
The rate at which new
requirements for component
services can be met
The Ward
users
orchestration
synchronization
Alignment tempo:
The rate at which the Ward is able
to align new care pathways to new
demands from patients
users
The demands of inpatients’ conditions arise
within the context of patients’ lives
The Ward aligns its treatments to the
demands of its inpatients’ conditions
The supplier responds to its users
within the Ward
Demand
Tempo
Alignment
Tempo
Acquisition
Tempo
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4. Economic
Entity
Task
System
Economic
Entity
Task
System
contract
transaction
A singular socio-
technical system
Leadership of the socio-
technical system
The socio-technical entity
The ‘open system’ metaphor
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5. ‘Design-time’ and ‘Run-time’1
If the tempos are such that the three spaces can be dis-entangled:
Service Supplier Space
Operational Space
Acquisition Space
The Ward
Ward’s inpatients
New or modified service
is developed
Functional and non-
Functional requirements
defined for changes to
services
1. The concierge service
decides what the Ward
needs to reduce time
spent managing services
2. Sponsoring
process shapes
what is developed
3. Service supplier
delivers to the Ward
customer
Governance of Hospital
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6. Service Supplier’s organisation is defined
by its primary task
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layer 1: Machine Level Interactions
(lexis)
layer 2: Syntactic Interactions
(language syntax)
layer 3: Semantic Interactions (shared
understanding of meaning)
layer 4: Discursive Interactions
(shared understanding of organizational processes)
layer 0: Supporting Substrate
The shared understanding
of the organisation as a
whole is in terms of its
overall primary task
supported
behaviours

7. ‘Design-time’ and ‘Run-time’2
If the tempos are such that the three spaces are unavoidably entangled
Service Supplier Space
Operational Space
Acquisition Space
The Ward
Ward’s inpatients
New or modified service
is developed
Functional and non-Functional
requirements defined for changes
to services
Demand tempo: the tempo at
which the organization of
inpatients’ demands changes
in relation to the Ward.
Supplier tempo: the tempo
at which the supplier is able
to supply new components
Alignment tempo: the tempo at
which the operating model and
supplied components can be
aligned to enable the Ward to
meet the demands of its patients
Governance of Hospital
Horizontal approach to
governance:
There have to be processes
of dynamic alignment
because the tempos are
such that the three spaces
are entangled
Under these conditions, the
processes of (dynamic)
alignment have to be
understood as taking place
within a (larger) socio-
technical ecosystem
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8. Boundary
An economic entity establishing a relation of
accountability and control over its task
systems within the boundary of the Services
entity
Task systemsTask systemsTask systemsTask systems
Service Primary Task
Services
‘Provider’
Ward
‘Purchaser’
Alignment of
service to
context-of-use
particular to the
Ward ‘purchaser’
control accountability
Service
Outcome
processes-of-organizing
Ward Sister’s
Leadership
Primary risk
The mis-alignment of the service outcome to the context-of-use
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9. Primary Risk brings in its relation to its
ecosystem
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layer 1: Machine Level Interactions
(lexis)
layer 2: Syntactic Interactions
(language syntax)
layer 3: Semantic Interactions (shared
understanding of meaning)
layer 4: Discursive Interactions
(shared understanding of organizational processes)
layer 5: Pragmatic Interactions
(the way the situation is engaged with)
layer 6: Context-of-use
(the context in which the effect is experienced)
layer 0: Supporting Substrate
layer 7: Overall Context
(the overall context giving rise to the contexts-of-use)
Primary risk defined by
potential mis-alignment to
a dynamic context-of-use
supported
behaviours
possible
alignments

10. The Complex
Strengthening horizontal linkages push organizations into the ‘complex’ space
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Complex
ecosystem
Horizontal
cause-and-effect
linkages
strong
weak
Vertical control linkages
weak strong
Complicated
system-of-
systems
Simple
system
Chaotic
behaviour
Source: “The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated World”. Kurtz and Snowden. IBM Systems Journal Vol 42, No 3 2003
disorder
Cause-and-effect separated
over time and space – an
expert would be expected to
know the right answer
Cause-and-effect relations
repeatable, perceivable and
predictable – everyone knows
the right answer
Cause-and-effect are only
coherent in retrospect and do
not repeat – the right answer
only emerges retrospectively
No cause-and-effect
relationships perceivable –
there is no right answer
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11. Triple-loop Agency
To act ‘strategically’ in complex environments involves modulating identity
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Project
identity
interaction
environment
Project
identity
interaction
environment
interaction
Double-loop Agency:
identity defines norms of
adaptivity – different mode
of interaction in different
environment to sustain given
direct effects
Project
identity
interaction
environment
Triple-loop Agency:
identity derived from norms of
effect - different mode of interaction
in any given environment to sustain
given indirect effects
Single-loop Agency:
identity defines norms
of interaction – one mode
of interaction in any one
environment
modulation
of interaction
modulation
of identityA B C
interaction interaction
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12. Triple-loop learning
Modulating identity involves being affected by the experience-in-its-context
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Concrete
Experience
(doing / having an
experience)
Reflective
Observation
(reviewing & reflecting on
the experience)
Abstract
Conceptualisation
(concluding learning from
the experience)
Active
Experimentation
(planning & trying out
what you have learned)
1-loop
2-loop
3-loop
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13. The challenge of triple loop learning
Triple loop learning involves attending to ‘situation’ in a different way
“Discussion of the subject of relating is a much easier exercise for analysts than is the discussion of usage,
since relating may be examined as a phenomenon of the subject, and psychoanalysis always likes to be able to
eliminate all factors that are environmental, except in so far as the environment can be thought of in terms of
projective mechanisms. But in examining usage there is no escape: the analyst must take into account the
nature of the object, not as a projection, but as a thing in itself.” (Winnicott 1969)
• Both individuals and enterprises have difficulty adapting to the dynamic impact of
changes in the way their environment is organized.
• Managing the risks of adaptation* means managing the adaptation of identity
• The situational cues/clues about this adaptation are in ‘affective networks’ and
the nature of Freud’s third identification
Winnicott, D. W. (1969). "The use of an object." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 50: 711-716.
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* i.e. risks of making errors of execution, planning & intention

14. What is the Problem?
What makes acting ‘strategically’ difficult in complex environments?
1. The existing assumptions about
– open systems,
– primary task,
– organization-as-defence-against-anxiety/organization-in-the-mind and
– basic assumption-working-below-the-surface
are perfectly suited to understanding the contexts in which professional coaching and
counselling to individuals-in-roles are carried out.
2. These assumptions take the existence of the sovereign (i.e. self-defining) client enterprise as
ontically prior (i.e. a given context) to the problematics of working with individuals-in-roles.
3. When dealing with the horizontally-networked organization-without-boundaries, this
ontically prior status of the client enterprise can no longer be assumed. This makes the
problematics ‘wicked’ i.e. it creates a circular causality between role and context.
4. The thinking in this presentation aims to develop the additional assumptions needed to
work with the individual in these more complex environments.
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‘wicked’ from Rittel, H. W., & Webber, M. M. (1973). Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences 4, 155-169.

15. What does this imply?
What further assumptions are needed to act ‘strategically’ in complex environments?
1. Further assumptions need to be made about:
– complex sociotechnical ecosystems
– primary risk; domain of relevance
– The third dilemma: affiliation vs alliance
(top-down vs bottom-up & espoused-theory vs unthought-known being the first two)
– what-is-Really-going on (wiRgo)
in complex environments. These assumptions impact on the assumptions made about the
individual’s relation to the unconscious.
2. A ‘gendered’ understanding of the relation between the organization and its environment
becomes necessary (i.e. one that addresses the problematics of the subject’s double
subjection as a divided subject – and its valencies). .
3. A move has to be made from a one-sided to a multi-sided understanding of demand, with a
corresponding primacy given to indirect over direct effects and benefits. .
4. All of this presents the individual with too-many-things-to-have-to-attend-to. How, then, is
the individual to act ‘strategically’?
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16. The argument
It is necessary to identify extimate symptoms of what-is-Really-going-on (wiRgo)
• Sovereignty (with its authority) is the assertion of a particular way of anticipating
meaning
• The unconscious is organized as chains of displacement structured in relation to
each other on the basis of difference like language is structured by difference
• The Freudian drive is the experience of structural ‘gaps’ in relation to these chains
• wiRgo is experienced indirectly as what-is-left-out in the way these ‘gaps’ are
experienced.
• The third (type of) identification can take the subject ‘beyond’ their existing
knowing into affective/heretical networks.
• Forensic processes* are needed to distinguish the symptoms arising from the third
(type of) identification that are strategic from those that are ‘merely’ distracting.
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* Forensic processes – critical processes capable of examining the existent ontic frameworks in
relation to which symptoms are constituted. Two types of mutually supporting framework are
used:
• Structural – the formation of the organisational environments in which dynamics are
played out
• Relational – the patterns of relationship constituting organisation dynamics
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17. PART II – THE ARGUMENT
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18. Outline
The relevance of the relation to the unconscious
• The ‘id’ knows more than the ‘ego’ admits
• The Freudian Unconscious
• Freud’s first model
• Three forms of identification
• The Freudian drive as relation to ‘gap’ in the
primary repressed
• The Lacanian twist
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19. THE ‘ID’ KNOWS MORE THAN THE
‘EGO’ ADMITS
Source for this and the next section:
Mark Solms and Jaak Panksepp (2012) The “Id” Knows More than the “Ego” Admits:
Neuropsychoanalytic and Primal Consciousness Perspectives on the Interface Between Affective and
Cognitive Neuroscience. Brain Sci. 2012, 2, 147-175; doi:10.3390/brainsci2020147
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20. motor association (executive)
cortex
motor projection cortex
perceptual
association
cortex
exteroceptive
projection
cortex
exteroceptive
projection
cortex
some
interoceptive
nuclei
some ERTAS
(arousal) nuclei
some basic
emotion
circuits
BrainMind structures
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Cortical processes…
… rest on nested layers of process
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21. Primary-Process Emotions
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process Cognitions
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning and
Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, LUST, CARE, PANIC/GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
Two-way or ‘Circular’ Causation in
nested BrainMind structures
declarative
thinking
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22. Primary-Process Emotions
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process Cognitions
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning and
Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, LUST, CARE, PANIC/GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
Anoetic
1st-person perspective/core self
upper brainstem up to septal area
Noetic
2nd-person perspective/bodily self
lower subcortical ganglia and upper limbic structures
Autonoetic
3rd-person perspective/everyday self
higher neocortical functions
the subjective or
phenomenal level of the
anoetic self as affect
the perceptual or representational
level of the noetic self as an object, no
different from other objects
the conceptual or re-representational level of
the autonoetic self in relation to other objects,
i.e., perceived from an external perspective
Nested Selves
the anoetic self is the medium in which we experience our consciousness
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‘I’
ego
id

23. Primary-Process Emotions:
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning:
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process
Cognitions:
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning and
Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
LUST, CARE, PANIC/
GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
1st Attention
(autonoetic)
2nd Attention
(noetic) inner face of
2nd attention
outer face of
2nd attention
inner face of
1st attention
outer face of
1st attention
below-the-surface
(anoetic)
The below-the-surface
More is ‘known’ below-the-surface than the 1st and (outer-facing) 2nd attentions admit
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dynamically
unconscious
radically
unconscious
‘I’
ego
id

24. THE FREUDIAN UNCONSCIOUS AND
THE DIVIDED SUBJECT
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25. sound-image
motor-image
reading-image
writing-image
Word-presentation ω-system
visual tactile
acoustic
Thing-presentation ψ-complex
Open complex
of
thing-associations
Closed
complex
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Freud’s First Model
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Secondary-Process
Primary-Process
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26. . . . . . . . .
Ucs PcsPcpt Mnem Mnem’
M Motor system [also known as
Consciousness system,
abbreviated Cs (previously ω)]
Perceptual
system
(previously φ)
Preconscious
System
Unconscious
System
Mnemic systems
(previously ψ)
Freud’s second model
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27. preconscious
unconscious
pcpt-cs
Freud’s final model
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28. Motor system [also known as
Consciousness system,
abbreviated Cs (previously ω)]
Perceptual
system
(previously φ)
Preconscious
System
Unconscious
System
Mnemic systems
(previously ψ)
. . . . . . . .
Ucs PcsPcpt Mnem Mnem’
M
Correspondences between
Freud’s second and last models
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29. Primary-Process Emotions:
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning:
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process
Cognitions:
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning and
Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
LUST, CARE, PANIC/
GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
1st Attention
(autonoetic)
2nd Attention
(noetic) inner face of
2nd attention
outer face of
2nd attention
‘I’
ego
id
inner face of
1st attention
outer face of
1st attention
Freud and Neuroscience
Distinguishing the subjects of perception and of the unconscious
below-the-surface
(anoetic)
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dynamically
unconscious
radically
unconscious

30. Primary-Process Emotions:
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning:
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process
Cognitions:
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning and
Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
LUST, CARE, PANIC/
GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
1st Attention
(autonoetic)
2nd Attention
(noetic) inner face of
2nd attention
outer face of
2nd attention
the subject of
the unconscious
the subject
of perception
inner face of
1st attention
outer face of
1st attention
The Divided Subject $
the ego is divided in its attempt to know itself
below-the-surface
(anoetic)
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31. RETURNING TO FREUD’S FIRST
MODEL
Understanding “subject of the unconscious” in terms of Freud’s Project
for a Scientific Psychology
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32. Complexification
How is experience complexified?
• The networks of relationships in which I am
embedded provide a metaphor for complexification
people
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x
X x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
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Experience 1
Experience 2
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33. Quantity and Quality1
Open: complexification
of difference
Drive energies aka
‘quotas of affect’
Distribution of
‘quotas of affect’
Closed: difference
between qualities
Open: complexification
across different
neuronal pathways
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Perceptual/
Motor systems
Primary-Process
Primary-Process
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-system
-complex
-system Distribution of Q
Q
Q-screen
attention
facilitation
-complex
-system Distribution of Q
Q
Q-screen
facilitation

34. Primary-Process Emotions:
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning:
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertiary-Process
Cognitions:
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning
and Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
LUST, CARE, PANIC/
GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
1st Attention
(autonoetic)
2nd Attention
(noetic)
inner face of
2nd attention
outer face of
2nd attention
the subject of
the unconscious
the subject
of perception
‘I’
ego
id
inner face of
1st attention
outer face of
1st attention
Drive energies aka
‘quotas of affect’
ψ system
below-the-surface
(anoetic)
Quantity and Quality2
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 system

35. The -complex structures like a language
does Complexification is a process of displacement/metonymy
• ‘Meaning’ is in difference between patterns of
complexification
people
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x
X x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
The experience is ‘complexified’
as a pattern of relationships
across the nodes
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Experience 1
Experience 2
The ‘meaning’ is in
the difference
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36. Primary repression
the unconscious is structured like a language is structured
“Thus, if man comes to think about the symbolic order, it is because he is first caught in it in his being. The illusion that he has formed this
order through his consciousness stems from the fact that it is through the pathway of a specific gap in his imaginary relationship with his
semblable that he has been able to enter into this order as a subject. But he has only been able to make this entrance by passing through the
radical defile of speech…” Écrits p53
• Experience without signification is traumatic/pre-conceptual trauma.
• With or without signification, there will always be ‘gaps’ between the pathways
inscribed in the unconscious by experience.
• The experience of these ‘gaps’ is referred to as ‘what-is-Really-going-on’ (wiRgo).
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ψ-complex thing-presentation as
primary process ground-of-being
(ego) a
(Id) S a’ other
A Other
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Rooted in an originating
affirmation (Bejahung)
constituting the unary trait

37. THE SIGNIFIER/SIGNIFIED RELATION
AND THE ‘GAP’
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38. The cat lay on the mat
.
signifier
signified
Tree
identity
identification
correspondence
within implicit
difference
correspondence to
an explicit
difference
correspondence to
patterns in relations
between differences
(i) (ii) (iii)
The signifier-signified relation
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(iv)
S - signifier
s - signified
metonymy – ‘sliding’ of the relation
Metaphor – ‘fixing’ of the relation
We will want to further
distinguish between
identification arising from
‘fixing’ of relation and
identification arising in
the course of ‘sliding’ of
the relation
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39. Freud’s three forms of identification
• Freud’s three forms of identification:
– identifying with someone, in the sense of wanting to be them themselves - “I
want to be you”. (perceptual object - ‘identity’)
– identifying with someone in the sense of wanting to have that person’s way of
organizing the way they are - “I want to learn how to be like you”.
(thinking object – ‘fixing of identification’)
– identifying not with someone, but rather with a situation that engenders a
particular affective relation to themselves.
(affective object – ‘sliding of identification’)
• “Supposing, for instance, that one of the girls in a boarding school has had a letter
from someone with whom she is secretly in love which arouses her jealousy, and
that she reacts to with a fit of hysterics; then some of her friends who know about
it will catch the fit, as we say, by mental infection. The mechanism is that of
identification based upon the possibility or desire of putting oneself in the same
situation.” (Freud 1921c) p107 – my emphasis.
Freud, S. (1921c). Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. J. Strachey. London, The
Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. 18: 65-143.
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40. Displacement & Condensation: metonymy and
metaphor
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metaphor
metonymy
Open: complexification
of difference
Closed: quality
Relating as if it has
meaning
That which is
immediately
recognizableThat which can be made
sense of through the way
the signifiers are organized
Meaning
(signified)
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41. … the Punctuationner elicits this
parti
what has been heard
Diachronic axis
(through time)
Synchronic axis
(in relation to a moment in time)
paradigmatics
syntagmatics
listening
Within the context of
all the meaningful
distinctions that
could be made…
… the listener elicits
this particular
punctuation of what
has been heard
Meaning
(signified)
Speaking
(signifiers)
Treating the speaking as if
something is meant –
anticipating meaning
Through identification, the
signified is taken as
‘supporting’ the punctuated
relation to the signifiers
Making meaning
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42. First and second identifications
listening
Imaginary
identification:
immediate
recognition
Speaking
(signifiers)
(moi)
i(a)
I(A) $
Symbolic
identification:
working-it-out
recognition
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43. Speaking
(signifiers)
S <> a
desire
The subject as
something that is
always more than can
be signified
The objet petit a as
relation to something
that is wanting/lacking
The relation to what is left
wanting – phantasy as valency to
way of minding the gap:
recognition in the relation to the
situation
Third identification –
phantasy as valency to minding the ‘gap’
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I(A) $
phantasy (moi)
i(a)

44. Underlying this valency is the relation
to the lost object and to the drive
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The graph of desire from Lacan’s Écrits
desire
Phantasy
 valency
Drive
S◊DS(A)
As(A)
ego/moi i(a)
I(A) $
Signifier of the lack of the Other
 relation to the lost object/das Ding
divided subject
 doubly subjected

45. THE FREUDIAN DRIVE AS THE
RELATION TO THIS ‘GAP’
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46. The Railway Metaphor
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The Booking System
The Railway
Network
The Traveller’s
conscious aim of
an experience
Tertiary-Process
Secondary-Process
Primary-Process
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47. A
B
C
D
E
F
Structural ‘gap’
Related stations
shared with other
train routes
Related stations that are
unique to train route
desired experience-of-
itinerary
Itinerary to satisfy a demand
Demand
Structural ‘holes’ or ‘gaps’
• What routes across the country are possible by train?
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48. A
B
C
D
E
A
B
C
D
E
F
X
X
F
X
X X
X X
X X
X X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Relevant
train
routes
Stations unique
to each train
route
Shared stations
Structural ‘gap’
Shared stations
Stations unique to train route
desired experience-of-
itinerary
Itinerary to satisfy a demand
Demand
Itinerary attempting
to satisfy a demand
XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Bookings supporting the itinerary
All possible train routes
Stations
Desire structured by ‘holes’ or ‘gaps’
approximation to desired
experience-of-itinerary
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approximation to desired
experience-of-itinerary

49. A
B
C
D
E
A
B
C
D
E
F
X
X
F
X
X X
X X
X X
X X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Relevant
train
routes
Stations unique
to each train
route
Shared stations
Structural ‘gap’
Shared stations
Stations unique to train route
desired experience-of-itinerary
Itinerary to satisfy a demand
Demand
Itinerary attempting
to satisfy a demand
XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Bookings supporting the itinerary
Drive for
satisfaction
[Drang]
Aim [Ziel]
‘gap’
[Quelle]
All possible train routes
Stations
Approximation to desired
itinerary
Approximation to desired
experience-of-itinerary
[Objekt]
The approximation to the desired
experience
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50. Primary-Process Emotions:
Affects Deeply Subcortical
Secondary-Process Learning:
Largely Upper Limbic
Tertary-Process Cognitions:
Largely Neocortical
Bottom-up Influences on
Ruminations and Thoughts
Bottom-up Learning
and Development
SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
LUST, CARE, PANIC/
GRIEF & PLAY
Top-down
Cognitive
Regulation
Top-down
Conditioned
Responses
inner face of
2nd attention
outer face of
2nd attention
the subject of
the unconscious
the subject
of perception
‘I’
ego
id
inner face of
1st attention
outer face of
1st attention
Drive energies aka
‘quotas of affect’
Relation to the other mediated
by languaging
Objekt as ‘covering’ wiRgo
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relation to
what-is-Really-going-on
(wiRgo) - to the thing-in-itself
1st Attention
(autonoetic)
2nd Attention
(noetic)
below-the-surface
(anoetic)
ψ system
 system

51. THE LACANIAN TWIST
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52. Lacan’s quadripod1
Secondary Process
Primary Process
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Organization of
differences
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Tertiary Process

53. 
ψ-complex
thing-presentation
ω-system
word-presentation
Organization of
differences
relation to what-is-
Really-going-on
(wiRgo)
relation to the social
mediated by languaging
A B ‘A’ is an organizing influence on ‘B’
A B ‘A’ is an unconscious organizing influence on ‘B’
Lacan’s quadripod2
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The 1st attention
The 2nd attention
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The Booking System
The Railway Network
Organising Assumptions
The Railway Metaphor
The thing-
in-itself
The Traveller’s
conscious aim of
an experience
A B
A in context of B:
A is an organizing
influence on B
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The Booking System
(traces)
The Railway Network (wigo)

The Traveller’s
conscious aim
(reading)
Organising Assumptions
The thing-
in-itself
(wiRgo)
The Railway Metaphor
A B
A in context of B:
A is an organizing
influence on B
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The Booking System
(traces)
The Railway Network (wigo)

The Traveller’s
conscious aim
(reading)
Organising Assumptions
The thing-
in-itself
(wiRgo)
The Railway Metaphor
-system
-complex
Unary
trait
‘booking’ = facilitating
word-presentation
‘pleasure/pain’ =
experience of
(complexification of)
journey
‘journey’ = complexification
of quantity qua
thing-presentation
A B
A is an organizing
influence on B
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57. Bion’s approach to a ‘beyond’ of
below-the-surface
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
1 2 3 4 5 6 ..n
Algebraic Calculus
Scientific Deductive System
Concept
Conception
Pre-conception
Dream Thoughts, Dreams, Myths
 -elements
 -elements
Ps
D
The thing-in-itself (O)
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The way we understand this will be
changed by the Lacanian ‘Twist’
Knowing and O can be symmetricKnowing and O can be symmetric
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58. Working with extimate symptoms – the
Lacanian ‘twist’
In being true to desire/heretical,
my relation to that which is symptomatic of what I
want (lack) is necessarily asymmetric to what I know
(being always on the ‘Other’ axis)

-system:
word-presentation
-complex: thing-presentation
$
The ‘Other’
axis
Axis of subject of
perception
Axis of subject of the
unconscious
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wiRgo

59. PART III - RETURNING TO THE
PROBLEM
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60. The argument
It is necessary to identify extimate symptoms of what-is-Really-going-on (wiRgo)
• Sovereignty (with its authority) is the assertion of a particular way of anticipating
meaning
• The unconscious is organized as chains of displacement structured in relation to
each other like language is structured, in terms of difference.
• The Freudian drive is the experience of structural ‘gaps’ in relation to these chains.
• wiRgo is experienced indirectly as what-is-left-out in the way these ‘gaps’ are
experienced.
• The third (type of) identification can take the subject ‘beyond’ his or her existing
knowing into affective/heretical social networks.
• Forensic processes* are needed to distinguish the symptoms arising from the third
(type of) identification that are strategic from those that are ‘merely’ distracting.
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* Forensic processes – critical processes capable of examining the existent ontic frameworks in
relation to which symptoms are constituted. Two main types of framework are used:
• Structural – the formation of the organisational environments in which dynamics are
played out
• Relational – the patterns of relationship constituting organisation dynamics
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61. END
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