The Organization And The Symbolic: Organizational Dynamics Viewed From A Lacanian Perspective  

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Arnaud, Gilles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Relations vol. 55 no. 6 (Jun. 2002), page 691–716.
Topik: compulsion to repeat; organizational diagnosis; psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan; psychodynamics of organizations; symbolic debt
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For many rationalist observers, organizational dysfunctions, such as recurrent failures in the implementation of strategic orientations, the constantly aggressive behaviour of managers, and so on, are nothing other than manifestation of deficiencies in decision-making or in the well thought-out application of decisions. In the light of psychoanalysis, however, such phenomena can be regarded differently, in particular as compulsions to repeat or actings-out. Indeed, in this perspective, it is on a ‘stage’ other than that of ‘reality’ that the game is played out: the stage of the imaginary and unconscious symbolic determinations. The object of this article is to propose a fresh reading of organizational life based on the work of Jacques Lacan. Although Lacanian notions are often seen as posing numerous problems for those brought up in an Anglo-American tradition of intellectual endeavour, this article upholds that such notions suggest rigorous alternative ways of approaching organizations.

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