Winnicott and Labor’s Eclipse of Life

Work is Where We Start From

Nathan Gerard (California State University, Long Beach, USA)

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Routledge
11 September 2023

Social & political philosophy; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Occupational & industrial psychology; Political science & theory; Psychotherapy

Series: Psychoanalytic Political Theory

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 work’s perils, the book positions Winnicott as both a radical critic and creative advocate for building a different kind of work life—one 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 Winnicott’s 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 one’s unique sense of “feeling real” and alive.

Winnicott and Labor’s 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.

By: Nathan Gerard (California State University Long Beach USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9781032505374
ISBN 10: 1032505370
Series: Psychoanalytic Political Theory
Pages: 94
Publication Date: 11 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 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 organizations.

Reviews for Winnicott and Labor’s Eclipse of Life: Work is Where We Start From

“Going to work used to be only one aspect of our lives. But today it has taken over everything we do, casting a dark shadow across human existence. Drawing inspiration from the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, this brilliant new volume offers a breathtaking account of why this happened. Nathan Gerard’s book is a must read for anyone interested in modern employment and its hidden injuries.” Peter Fleming, author of Dark Academia: How Universities Die “Only several times in my life have I read a book that not only adds something to my knowledge and perspective, but that also suddenly changes most everything in the ways I look, listen, think, feel, and participate in this life. Nathan Gerard’s new book is now one of them. It is at once additive and life-changing.” Howard F. Stein, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA & Poet Laureate of High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology