Death and the City - On Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia At Work

Informationen zum Autor Susan Kahn Klappentext Death and the City provides an in-depth portrait of an organisation in a palliative state. It transports the analytic concepts of mourning and melancholia and of the death drive into the workplace, and brings this important, but under explored, stream of psychoanalytic thought to the fore as a means of interrogating and further understanding. Zusammenfassung Death and the City provides an in-depth portrait of an organisation in a palliative state. It transports the analytic concepts of mourning and melancholia and of the death drive into the workplace, and brings this important, but under explored, stream of psychoanalytic thought to the fore as a means of interrogating and further understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword , Introduction , Introducing death and the city , Death in Theory , Death and psychoanalysis , Death and organisations , Death at Work , Mourning at work , Melancholia at work , The death drive , Defences at work , Ending thoughts

Product details

• Authors: Susan Kahn, Susan Martha Kahn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781782203544
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-354-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management