- 208 pages
- English
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About this book
Drawing on over four decades of professional and academic experience, Susan Long explores how the concept of the unconscious has evolved from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, showing that it is more than an individual phenomenon, but also a group, organisational and institutional phenomena.
Each chapter examines theories that use the idea of the unconscious, first covering the work of Schelling, Freud, Bion, and Lacan. After examining traditional psychoanalytic ethos, the author takes a look at the mid-twentieth century extension of the meaning of the unconscious towards the social field. Here, she explores three main traditional categories of approaches: the Neo-Freudians, the Frankfurt School and social scientists, historians and anthropologists. The book also covers the idea of approaching the unconscious from the perspective of the neurosciences, as well as its connections with nature, showing a broader, more cosmic view of the unconscious in nature and the universe. Lastly, Long looks at how we might understand today's organisations and society through the lens of the changing ideas presented throughout the book.
Broad sweeping and accessible, this book is a valuable resource for organisational psychologists, consultants, and managers exploring psychoanalytic and socioanalytic approaches, as well as those in academic settings wanting to pursue an interest in the unconscious.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 An Introduction
- 2 Schelling: The Beginnings
- 3 Freud: The Repressed Unconscious
- 4 Bion and the Infinite Unconscious
- 5 Jacques Lacan – The Unconscious Structured Like a Language Is Structured (by Difference)
- 6 The Unconscious in Social Theory and Research
- 7 The Social Unconscious
- 8 Unconscious in Organisations
- 9 Neuropsychoanalysis and the Unconscious
- 10 The Unconscious in Nature
- 11 The Spirit in Things
- 12 Revisiting Theories of the Unconscious with the Idea of the Spirit Within
- Index