Sub-theme 45: Uncovering the Hidden: Psychoanalytic Insights into the 'Good Organization'

Convenors:
Ishan Jalan, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Gilles Arnaud, ESCP Europe, France
Bénédicte Vidaillet, Université Paris-Est, France
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Problematizing the Idea of 'Good’: Defences against Goodness & Loss of Goodness
Chair: Ishan Jalan
Ruth Mcdonald and Marianna Fotaki
When recovery is not possible: Forensic psychiatrists and serious offenders suspended in time
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kévin Flamme and Xavier Leon
Eda Ulus
The unconscious in the US presidential election process: Desires, defences, and tragic consequences
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Carrie M. Duncan and Seth Allcorn
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Organizational Ideal, Identification and Dis-identification
Chair: Bénédicte Vidaillet
Kévin Flamme and Xavier Leon
Organizational ideal and nemesis: Exploring the des-identification phenomenon
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ruth McDonald and Marianna Fotaki
Mickaël Naulleau
Negative recognition in rationalization of service relationship: a lacanian perspective on identifications’ disruptions of intersubjective dynamic
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Francisco Valenzuela and Casper Hoedemaekers
Carrie M. Duncan and Seth Allcorn
Necessary evils and transcendent virtues: The dialectics of leadership and followership in “good” organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Max Piper
Session III: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Exploring Desires, Subjectivity & Emotions
Chair: Ishan Jalan
Mark Stringer and Andreas Liefooghe
Foresaken Desires: The darkside of employee engagement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jannick Friis Christensen and Sara Louise Muhr
Francisco Valenzuela and Casper Hoedemaekers
Affects of perplexity in late-neoliberal bureaucracy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mickaël Naulleau
Jannick Friis Christensen and Sara Louise Muhr
Desired diversity and symptomatic anxiety: Theorising failed diversity as Lacanian lack
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mark Stringer and Andreas Liefooghe
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Entrepreneurship, Enterprises and Engagement
Chair: Bénédicte Vidaillet
Joanne Larty and Gillian C. Hopkinson
Bridging enterprise and organization: A psychoanalytical exploration of the enterprising self in alternative forms of employment
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lorenzo Mercurio
François Renon and Anne Goujon Belghit
The keys to manage the psychological contract – Between the managerial and the psychoanalyticapproach: The case of a SME in the wine-making sector
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Filippo Ferrari
Lorenzo Mercurio, Paola Briganti, Rocco Agrifoglio and Concetta Metallo
From entrepreneur’s dreams to new venture creation: A psychoanalytic view
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Joanne Larty and Gillian C. Hopkinson
Session V: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Exploring through a Gendered Lens
Chair: Ishan Jalan
Filippo Ferrari
In the spiders’ web.The mother-children dysfunctional relationship in a rigidly enmeshed business family
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): François Renon and Anne Goujon Belghit
Vijayta Doshi and Katie Sullivan
The paradoxes of vulnerable masculinity: Working the “evening shift” at cosmetics counters in India
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Eda Ulus
Carrie M. Duncan and Sara Elias
(Inter)subjectivity in the research pair
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Vijayta Doshi and Katie Sullivan
Session VI: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
Exploring Tensions and Fractions
Chair: Bénédicte Vidaillet
Nathan Gerard
'Doing good' and its discontents
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert
Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert
Is working in a call center always a huge disappointment ?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nathan Gerard
Max Piper
CEO narcissism and financial performance in european firms
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sara Elias and Carrie M. Duncan
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, M A227 (2nd floor)
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