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ABSTRACT
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|3 pages
The Two Theories of Symbolism in Psychoanalysis
chapter 2|6 pages
Over determination and Equifinality: Relations between Relations
chapter 3|1 pages
The Freudian Points of View
chapter 4|2 pages
Cathexis and Intentionality
chapter 5|3 pages
The Semiotic-Grammatic Metaphor
chapter 6|1 pages
Condensation and Displacement
chapter 7|3 pages
Metaphor and Metonymy
chapter 8|6 pages
The Repression of the Signifier
chapter 9|4 pages
Manzanita Wood
chapter 10|3 pages
Postscript
chapter III|25 pages
Death, Desire, and Repetition: Commentary on Svevo's Confessions of Zeno
chapter 1|5 pages
The Ideology of the Self
chapter 2|2 pages
Levels and Mirrors
chapter 3|5 pages
The Communicational Model
chapter 4|3 pages
Bildung and Entäusserung
chapter 5|2 pages
The Paradoxes of Existence
chapter 6|2 pages
Know Thyself
chapter 7|3 pages
Pathological Communication
chapter 1|7 pages
Closure and Context
chapter 2|2 pages
Logical Conditions for the Double Bind
chapter 3|3 pages
Real Conditions
chapter 4|3 pages
The Paradox of Paradox
chapter 1|6 pages
Introduction: The Biomechanistic View
chapter 2|1 pages
Cybernetic Explanation
chapter 3|6 pages
Critique of the Energy Model
chapter 4|3 pages
Homeostasis and Repetition
chapter 5|5 pages
Energy and Information
chapter 6|1 pages
Secondary Process and Signification
chapter 7|5 pages
The Fort! Da! of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
chapter 8|3 pages
Verneinung and Verleugnung
chapter 1|1 pages
The Analog Computer
chapter 2|1 pages
The Digital Computer
chapter 3|4 pages
The Computer and the Brain: Boundaries and States
chapter 4|3 pages
Distinctions in Logical Form
chapter 5|4 pages
Distinctions in Function
chapter 6|2 pages
Difference, Distinction, and Opposition
chapter 7|2 pages
Logical Typing
chapter 8|2 pages
Play
chapter 9|4 pages
Digitalization and Decision: The Nerve Axon
chapter 10|10 pages
Zero and Not
chapter 11|3 pages
Some Guiding Principles
chapter |5 pages
Appendix I: A Table of Relations
chapter |6 pages
Appendix II: Analog and Digital
chapter 1|3 pages
Some Tentative Axioms
chapter 2|2 pages
The Counter-adaptive Results of Adaptive Change
chapter 3|3 pages
Positive Feedback
chapter 4|2 pages
The Paranoia of Symmetry
chapter 5|5 pages
Cogito ergo sum
chapter 6|8 pages
The Biosocial Unit of Survival
chapter 7|2 pages
Dialectics and Schismogenesis
chapter 8|3 pages
Better Dead than Red
chapter 1|3 pages
Grammar and Gödel
chapter 2|3 pages
Information, Meaning, and Redundancy
chapter 3|3 pages
Structure and Infrastructure: The Question of the Unconscious
chapter 4|2 pages
Lévi-Strauss and Systems Theory
chapter 5|4 pages
The Symbolic Function
chapter 6|5 pages
Nature and Culture: Anthropology
chapter 7|1 pages
Nature and Culture: Zoology
chapter 8|4 pages
Nature and Culture: Economic Exchange Theory
chapter 9|5 pages
Recapitulation: Symbolic Exchange
chapter 10|1 pages
The Imaginary other in Relation to the Other
chapter 11|3 pages
The Problem of Interorganismic Authority
chapter 12|1 pages
The Symbolic and the Veil of Maia
chapter 13|3 pages
C. S. Peirce on Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness
chapter 14|1 pages
Nature and Culture: The Phallus in Exchange
chapter 15|3 pages
Nature and Culture: Primary Process and Secondary Process
chapter 16|2 pages
Summary: Use Value and Exchange Value
chapter 1|3 pages
Therapy and Ideology
chapter 2|2 pages
Lacan's Theory of the Name-of-the-Father
chapter 3|6 pages
The Phallus as the Instrument of Exploitation
chapter 4|2 pages
Repressed Homosexuality and Paranoia
chapter 5|4 pages
Schreber's Desire to be Unmanned
chapter 6|7 pages
Schreber as a Social Philosopher
chapter 1|4 pages
The Representative Metaphor
chapter 2|5 pages
Piaget's Review of Structural Theories
chapter 3|11 pages
Piaget's Conception of Structure
chapter 4|2 pages
A Note on Multifinality
chapter 5|6 pages
Piaget's Atomistic Rationalism
chapter 6|1 pages
The Confusion Between Development and Evolution
chapter 7|3 pages
Natura non facit saltum
chapter 8|2 pages
Structuralism and Economics
chapter 9|2 pages
Bioenergetics and Marxism
chapter 10|4 pages
Games, Probability, Diachronic Linguistics
chapter 11|2 pages
Lévi-Strauss: One-dimensionality, Autonomy, Closure
chapter 12|4 pages
Piaget and Gödel
chapter 13|3 pages
The Structure as Law and Order
chapter 1|2 pages
Selection and Combination
chapter 2|1 pages
System and Metasystem
chapter 3|1 pages
Homeostasis, Homeorhesis, Homeogenesis, Morphogenesis
chapter 4|1 pages
The System as an Ecosystem Subject to Non-Holonomic Constraints
chapter 5|5 pages
The Closed and the Open System
chapter 6|3 pages
Complexity and Teleonomy
chapter 7|3 pages
Entropy and Inflexibility
chapter 8|1 pages
Oscillation, Tension, Contradiction
chapter 9|2 pages
The Morphostatic Model
chapter 10|3 pages
The Survival of the Fittest
chapter 11|4 pages
The Morphogenic Model
chapter 12|13 pages
Evolution in the Archaic System
chapter 13|5 pages
Capital and Entropy
chapter 1|1 pages
The Writing Metaphor in Freud
chapter 2|4 pages
Logocentrism and the Trace
chapter 3|2 pages
Noise in Evolution
chapter 4|1 pages
Noise in History
chapter 5|3 pages
Hegel on Erinnerung
chapter 6|7 pages
Redundant Synchrony and Permanent Evolution
chapter 1|1 pages
Epistemological Considerations
chapter 2|3 pages
The International Unity of the Scientific Discourse
chapter 3|1 pages
The Scientific Discourse as Propaganda
chapter 4|2 pages
The Enemy Brothers
chapter 5|4 pages
Philosophies of Opposition
chapter 6|4 pages
A Note on Genetic Difference
chapter 7|2 pages
Postscript
part XV|1 pages
Language and Communication