References for Theme: Lacan, Jacques
- Glynos, J
- "Lacan at Work" (2010)
(p.15) When travel, preparation, and worry are added together, the time devoted to work-related activities in formal organizations can amount to a large chunk of one’s life. And while the workplace continues to be regarded as a site of wealth production, social and technological change continually transform working practices, as a function of place, time, and control. In this context, it is not surprising that the concept of work itself becomes unstable
- "Lacan at Work" (2010)
(p.17) The tendency of many poststructuralist approaches to highlight the importance of the political dimension of workplace practices signals a desire to eschew the idea that the economy is an extra-discursive force outside of, and acting upon, politics, culture, and society. On the contrary, such a poststructuralist perspective seeks to make explicit the idea that the economy is discursively constructed and thus contestable. The political dimension of workplace practices is thus theorized in a way that diverges from the way politics and power are often understood. The concept of the political is theorized not as a function of the way that...
- "Lacan at Work" (2010)
(p.24) In general, however, we could say that the focus of a large swath of psychoanalytical approaches to work and the organization of work are concerned with problems which are defined in relation to a positivized conception of an individual’s psychological health or a positivized conception of an organization’s operational health. These health ideals frame a whole range of commonly analysed problems in this area: absenteeism, bullying, stress, workaholism, compulsiveness, occupational choice, motivations for continuing or abandoning work, reasons for particular style of management, trust, and sexual harassment. These are, of course, important problems that deserve our attention. It is also...
- "Lacan at Work" (2010)
(p.39) The privileging of culture, language, and ethics in Lacan’s corpus suggests that the ideological, normative, and political aspects of work practices may be more readily discerned when examined through this particular psychoanalytic prism, thereby problematizing, rather than taking for granted, the nature and content of an individual’s or organization’s ‘good psychological health’. A Lacanian-inflected political theory of discourse seeks to move beyond approaches that take the norms, ideals, and goals of organizations for granted, and could help throw light on the more collective and political aspects of such practices, highlighting the normative and ideological relevance of psychic processes. By situating...
- "Lacan at Work" (2010)
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