| Title: | Lacan and Maturana: Constructivist Origins for a 3rd order Cybernetics |
| Author: | Philip Boxer & Vincent Kenny |
| Category: | Published |
| Publication Year: | 1996 |
| Where Published: | University Association for Psychoanalytic Studies Newsletter, Issue 5 Winter pp5-28 |
We examine some difficulties in the use made of second-order cybernetics, and the absence within radical constructivism of a theory of the subject. We introduce Lacan’s approach to the subject particularly in the structure of discourse. We consider the implications this conception has both in the need for a third-order cybernetics, and for a formulation of an ethics based on calling into question the subject’s relation to this third order as it manifests itself in transference.