System and Structure

Essays in communication and exchange second edition

Anthony Wilden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415264884
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136442445
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

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.

Subject Index

Abgrund, 52

absence, 29n, 66, 148, 336-7

and desire, xix, 23, 25, 65-6, 52, 56, 81, 85, 431

and presence, 17n, 66, 141-2, 145-6, 148-52, 172-3, 186, 189, 248, 431, 438, 447-8, 483

see also lack

accident see chance; disturbance; noise

accumulation, 92, 249-50, 256-7, 313, 365-7, 392-1

of power, 210n

adaptation, 442

adaptivity, 330, 333, 368-9, 373-7

and counter-adaptivity, 205-7, 214n, 219, 365, 385-6

adequation, 75n, 265, 423

affect, and information, 27-8, 47, 144-5, 455

affectivity, 339, 344

Affektbetrag, 144

affirmation, 152-4

see also negation

aggregate, 202, 241, 244-5, 246n, 311, 360-1

aggressivity, 364, 450, 474, 481

see also death instinct

agitator, outside, 348-9, 402, 412

alcoholism, 4n, 71-4

alienation, 21, 74, 86, 91-2, 100-1, 148, 465-70

see also ego; mirror-stage; subject

alphabet, 397n, 404, 407-8

alter ego, 26, 72, 260, 261, 268, 450, 467

analog, 32, 99

and ecosystem, 159-60, 161, 168, 453

and p...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
• PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Introduction (1980): The Scientific Discourse: Knowledge as a Commodity
• I The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real: Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, and Freud
• II Metaphor and Metonymy: Freud's Semiotic Model of Condensation and Displacement
• III Death, Desire, and Repetition: Commentary on Svevo's Confessions of Zeno
• IV Montaigne on the Paradoxes of Individualism: A Communication about Communication
• V The Double Bind: Schizophrenia and Gödel
• VI Beyond the Entropy Principle in Freud
• VII Analog and Digital Communication: On Negation, Signification, and Meaning
• VIII Epistemology and Ecology: The Difference that Makes the Difference
• IX Nature and Culture: The Emergence of Symbolic and Imaginary Exchange
• X Critique of Phallocentrism: Daniel Paul Schreber on Women's Liberation
• XI The Structure as Law and Order: Piaget's Genetic Structuralism
• XII Ecosystem and Metasystem: A Morphogenic Model of Emergence in Open Systems
• XIII Order from Disorder: Noise, Trace, and Event in Evolution and in History
• XIV The Scientific Discourse as Propaganda: The Binary Opposition
• XV Language and Communication
• XVI Linguistics and Semiotics: The Unconscious Structured like a Language
• XVII The Ideology of Opposition and Identity: Critique of Lacan's Theory of the Mirror-stage in Childhood
• APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL NOTES (1980)
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ADDITIONAL REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING (1980)
• NAME INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX
• NAME INDEX (ADDITIONS)
• SUBJECT INDEX (ADDITIONS)