Gideon Boie successfully defended his PhD on June 11, 2024. The PhD thesis Discursive architecture. Tactics for critical intervention in the work of BAVO was published as a book by nai010 publishers. Gideon Boie reflects on BAVO, the collective that he founded together with Matthias Pauwels in the early 2000s. Boie outlines how the strategy of over-identification and the broader psychoanalytic framework allows us to re-present critique and establish critical practice.