Death and the City: On Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia at Work

ISBN-13: 9780367103750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

Susan Martha Kahn

Opis

Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman's, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock - these failures are part of our cultural experience of work. At a time when working lives are often vulnerable and organisational mortality is under threat from technology and the economy the consequences of organizational death are worthy of attention. Organisations can face many different endings - sharp and brutal, premature, or carefully planned and premeditated - all these endings have emotional collateral damage. We are working in an environment where crises, failure, and demise are everyday features. 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 organisational life. .

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Susan Kahn