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| Titre : |
The perverse dimension of management. Insights from a psychopathological perspective of management. |
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| Numéro : |
59 |
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| Année : |
2018 |
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| Volume : |
XXIV |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Mathias NAUDIN, Benoît BLANCHARD |
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| Résumé : |
As numerous authors observe in our society a shift from nevrotic relational
modes to perverse relational modes, our objective is to observe how management, by
nature as well as through its effects, includes a perverse dimension. For that purpose, by confronting extensive observations on the field and a critical review of academic
literature, we seek to establish the main characteristics of management (foundations,
objectives, pillars). As regards the perverse dimension, we will essentially focus on
the basis of perversion in its relational dynamic (with a special emphasis on the need
to reify the individual and take pleasure in its degradation) and on the way in which
it may develop in a social environment. Seen through this lens, management displays
numerous perverse dimensions: it appears as an ideological fetish which catalyzes
perverse social tendencies, which perverts the institutional frameworks, whereas the
processes and dynamics which establish and express it replicate a typically perverse
functioning (illusion of omnipotence, narcissistic seduction, modification and inversion
of the rules and framework of the social game, inter alia through the denial of
the subjectivity of individuals – which is moreover captured, standardised and instrumentalised
; diversion of intrapsychic instances and of identifications through the imposition
of managerial imperatives and the dissolution of subjectivity, the deployment
of devitalised scripts and subjectless processes, or the rejection of conflictuality and
thought. Ultimately, by nature as well as through its effects, management encourages
the emergence of perverse psychic nucleuses within individuals, and, at an adaptational
level, of perverse individual and collective defence mechanisms. In other words,
management encourages perverse individuals and perverse behaviours, inter alia because
they have become socially efficient. |
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| Pages : |
107 - 138 |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
management, perversity,perverse, reification, process, suffering |
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| Citations : |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-de-gestion-des-comportements-organisationnels-2018-59-page-107.htm |
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