By David Armstrong, Robert French
Either as a practitioner and a philosopher, David Armstrong has, for a few years, been a number one determine the world over within the fields of organizational consultancy and workforce family members. In papers offered at quite a lot of gatherings -- in North the US, Israel, Australia and Bulgaria, in addition to in mainland Europe and the uk -- he has produced a physique of labor during which he explores the sensible software of psychoanalytic considering in organizational contexts. he's quite famous for his cutting edge interpretations of the guidelines of Wilfred Bion.
This ebook brings jointly for the 1st time his key writings during this quarter, and will turn into crucial analyzing for managers and leaders who desire to deepen their knowing in their studies of their roles, in addition to for organizational specialists, lecturers and scholars of enterprises. those are "occasional" items: that's, they have been written for particular events and particular audiences. jointly they make up a desirable diversity of novel principles which are either theoretically tough and deeply useful, illustrated as they're all through via case fabric from his paintings with organizational consumers. every one bankruptcy is determined in context, to provide an explanation for the evolution of the tips offered, and the advent, written for the get together, either units the full in context and expands at the key idea of "organization-in-the-mind".
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It is a mental process that stands over and against a more familiar model of thought as made, as an object of ownership: “my” thought, “your” thought, “our” thought. From this point of view, one can circle back to and in turn mitigate what I said earlier about the irreducibility of emotional experience in the worlds of individual analysis and work with groups or organizations. Each can be seen as a different, distinct arena for the realization of “thoughts”. Thoughts emerge from a matrix of emotional experience.
Psychoanalysis is rooted, in its concepts and methods, on what takes place between two people in a consulting-room. It is, one may say, concerned with understanding the emotional experience contained or made present in that room. Its founder’s genius lay in realizing that this emotional experience, resonating and amplified through the medium of transference, opened a door to the understanding of the mind. Opening this door promoted development, fundamentally in the inner world of the patient, though also, of course, in that of the analyst her/himself.
I want to suggest that this irreducibility needs to be valued and given its due, and, furthermore, that it is only by valuing this irreducibility that the conjunction between “psychoanalysis and the public sphere” can be fruitfully explored. At the heart of this conjunction, as I see it, is the link of method: attention to and interpretation of emotional experience. There are difficulties with the term “emotional experience”. One difficulty is this: Ordinarily we tend to locate emotional experience in the individual, as if such experiences were matters of private ownership.