Winnicott and Labors Eclipse of Life: Work is Where We Start From [Paperback]

Introduction: Working with Winnicott  1. The Joy of Being Found: Winnicott, Klein, Lacan & the Relational Tradition at Work  2. To Operate in Sophistication: Outline of an Absent Self System  3. On the Capacity (Not) to Care  4. Organizing in the Negative  5. Ruthless Critique  Conclusion. The Cost of Feeling Real

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 works perils, the book positions Winnicott as both a radical critic and creative advocate for building a different kind of work lifeone 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 Winnicotts 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 ones unique sense of feeling real and alive.

Winnicott and Labors 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.

Nathan Gerard is an Organizational Psychologist and Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach, as well as a Research Associate at the Center for Psychosocial Organizational Studies. Nathan received his PhD from Columbia University with a focus on the psychoanalytic study of organizatl“Ü