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Staff-Student Relationships in Universities: Boundary Disasters and `Minus K'

Ian Parker

Manchester Metropolitan University

Psychosexual dynamics in academic institutions are characterized using WR. Bion's description of the production of `minus K' and the turn to the individual as a defence at times of boundary crisis. This theoretical account illuminates the importance of the relationship between container and contained, but needs to be contextualized. It is argued that Bion's ideas have been carried to the present day through cultural representations of disaster, and so have a particular resonance with contemporary academic boundary crises. The paper exemplifies a general argument about the importance of psychoanalysis as a culturally specific form of knowledge.

Key Words: academic institutions • basic assumption states • boundaries • disaster movies • minus K

Group Analysis, Vol. 29, No. 1, 99-111 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316496291009
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