Winnicott and Labor's Eclipse of Life
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Winnicott and Labor's Eclipse of Life

Work is Where We Start From

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Winnicott and Labor's Eclipse of Life

Work is Where We Start From

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About This Book

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.

Locating Winnicott within a broad landscape of critical scholarship that dissects work's perils, the book positions Winnicott as both a radical critic and creative advocate for building a different kind of work lifeā€”one that might make room for the presence of self. By shuffling the discourse on neoliberal subjectivity to reclaim what Winnicott calls "unit status" of the separate self, Gerard differentiates Winnicott from the relational tradition by advocating for Winnicott's non-relational aspects. Through such analysis, the book reveals how work and home have become two sides of the same impoverished coin, each contributing to a legitimately "bad environment" that perpetuates self-absence and annihilates one's unique sense of "feeling real" and alive.

Winnicott and Labor's Eclipse of Life

will be of interest to readers of Winnicott and psychoanalysis, organization and management studies, and anyone hoping to deepen their engagement with the dynamics of contemporary work life.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000999839
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political History & Theory
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Foreword
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Introduction: working with Winnicott
  13. 1 The joy of being found: Winnicott, Klein, Lacan & the relational tradition at work
  14. 2 To operate in sophistication: outline of an absent self system
  15. 3 On the capacity (not) to care
  16. 4 Organizing in the negative
  17. 5 Ruthless critique
  18. Conclusion: the cost of feeling real
  19. Index