Winnicott and Labor's Eclipse of Life

Work is Where We Start From
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-50539-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 157 g

Reihe: Psychoanalytic Political Theory

Nathan Gerard draws upon the pathbreaking insights of pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott to offer a new set of ideas in the novel domain of contemporary work life and its discontents.

Locating Winnicott within a broad landscape of critical scholarship that dissects work’s perils, the book positions Winnicott as both a radical critic and creative advocate for building a different kind of work life—one that might make room for the presence of self. By shuffling the discourse on neoliberal subjectivity to reclaim what Winnicott calls “unit status” of the separate self, Gerard differentiates Winnicott from the relational tradition by advocating for Winnicott’s non-relational aspects. Through such analysis, the book reveals how work and home have become two sides of the same impoverished coin, each contributing to a legitimately “bad environment” that perpetuates self-absence and annihilates one’s unique sense of “feeling real” and alive.

Winnicott and Labor’s Eclipse of Life

will be of interest to readers of Winnicott and psychoanalysis, organization and management studies, and anyone hoping to deepen their engagement with the dynamics of contemporary work life.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerard, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Working with Winnicott 1. The Joy of Being Found: Winnicott, Klein, Lacan & the Relational Tradition at Work 2. To Operate in Sophistication: Outline of an Absent Self System 3. On the Capacity (Not) to Care 4. Organizing in the Negative 5. Ruthless Critique Conclusion. The Cost of Feeling Real

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Gerard is an Organizational Psychologist and Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach, as well as a Research Associate at the Center for Psychosocial Organizational Studies. Nathan received his PhD from Columbia University with a focus on the psychoanalytic study of organizations.