Winnicott and Labors Eclipse of Life - Work Is Where We Start From

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Gerard, Nathan (California State University Gerard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032505398
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250539-8
• No. of pages: 94
• Series: Psychoanalytic Political Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Psychotherapy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Occupational and industrial psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Political science and theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis