Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction [Paperback]

Political correctness involves much more than a restriction of speech. It represents a broad cultural transformation, a shift in the way people understand things and organize their lives; a change in the way meaning is made. The problem addressed in this book is that, for reasons the author explores, some ways of making meaning support the creation and maintenance of organization, while others do not. Organizations are cultural products and rely upon psychological roots that go very deep. The basic premise of this book is that organizations are made up of the rules, common understandings, and obligations that the father represents, and which are given meaning in the oedipal dynamic. In anti-oedipal psychology, however, they are seen as locuses of deprivation and structures of oppression. Anti-oedipal meaning, then, is geared toward the destruction of organization.Introduction , Political correctness and organizational self-destruction , Organization and meaning: a multi-level psychoanalytic treatment of the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times , Religion against itself: psychodynamics of some peculiar television commercials produced by the United Church of Christ , Antioch against itself: transformation of the meaning of Antioch College , Organization in the age of hysteria , Limagination au pouvoir: Britain in the age of Princess Diana , ConclusionStates that organizations are made up of the rules, common understandings, and obligations that 'the father' represents, and which are given meaning in the oedipal dynamic. This title looks at how anti-oedipal dynamics have played out in various organizational failures to which political correctness has led.USCopyright ? 2010 to Howard S. Schwartz