Evolution of the Unconscious - Exploring Persons, Groups, Nature and Spirit

Drawing on over four decades of professional and academic experience, Susan Long explores how the concept of the unconscious has evolved from the 19th to the 21st century, showing that it is more than an individual phenomenon, but also a group, organisational, and institutional phenomena.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Schelling – The Beginnings 3. Freud – The Repressed Unconscious 4. Bion – The Infinite Unconscious 5. Lacan – The Unconscious Structured like a Language is Structured 6. The Unconscious in Social Theory 7. The Social Unconscious 8. The Unconscious in Organisations 9. The Unconscious in Neuropsychoanalysis 10. The Unconscious in Nature 11. The Spirit in Things 12. Theories of the Unconscious Revisited in the Light of Spirit

About the author

Susan Long is Emeritus Professor and PhD Co-Lead at the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA). She has more than four decades experience teaching psychoanalytic and socioanalytic approaches to managers, organisational consultants, organisational psychologists and other professionals.

Summary

Drawing on over four decades of professional and academic experience, Susan Long explores how the concept of the unconscious has evolved from the 19th to the 21st century, showing that it is more than an individual phenomenon, but also a group, organisational, and institutional phenomena.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Long, Susan (National Institute of Organisation Dy Long
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032907918
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290791-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychotherapy, Organizational theory & behaviour, Social, group or collective psychology, Occupational and industrial psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Organizational theory and behaviour, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis