The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems*

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Earl Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Unconscious

Portraits Perversely Framed: Jane Campion and Henry James

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
Jane Campion ◽  
Sexual Desires

Critics who disliked Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) suggest she was wasting her talents on a high-budget adaptation in order to reach a mass audience. Yet Campion does not adapt Henry James's novel so much as interpret it. By boldly dramatizing the unconscious sexual desires that riddle James's melodramatic novel, Campion exposes the spaces where traditional gender ideology fails, loosening the gender codes upon which the pleasure of melodrama rests. The result is a feminist narrative that is attractive to the mainstream but also capable of leading the audience to consider social systems in place beyond the theater.

scholarly journals Te Rōpu te Ūkaipo

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Crispin Balfour
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Work Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The People ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Group Mentality

I have been conducting a psychotherapy group since May 2007. We have met once a week, forty-six times a year, for almost ten years. A group that endures offers a promise of home, a place to return to time and time again, where we can put down roots. New Zealand offered me a promise of home as I think it does many émigrés. Homeless, I sought my roots in the land and the people of the land. This group, the other group members, myself as conductor, are there to be made use of in another kind of homelessness. Our roots feed us but they also transform the soil they are rooted in: we all learn from each other, drawing deep from the unconscious of the group. This paper offers a glimpse into how conducting this group has shaped my understanding with reference to the thinking of Bion and Winnicott. I have come to view work group mentality as a field phenomenon, such that the individuals take for granted the group as turangawaewae, without the need to inscribe a basic assumption on that field. Whakarāpopotonga Mai i te marama o Haratua 2007, ahau e whakahaere rōpū whakaora hinengaro ana. Ia wiki ka tūtaki mātau, whā tekau ma ono huihuinga i te tau, tata mō te tekau tau. He rōpū māia, he tohu kāinga whakaruruhau he wāhi hai hokihokinga, he wāhi whakatipuranga rarau. I whakaarahia mai e Aotearoa he oati kāinga pērā anō ki tōku whakaaro ki te nuinga o te hunga manene. Kāinga kore, i whai pūtaketanga au i roto i ngā iwi o te whenua. Ko tēnei rōpū, hūanga o ētahi atu rōpū me au hai kaiwhakahaere e tū ana hei whai take mō tētāhi atu momo kāinga kore. Whāngai ai tātau e ō tātau pūtake, whakarerehia anō ai hoki te papa e ngā takotoranga pakiaka: he whakaakoranga tā tēnā ki tēnā, whāia hōhōnuhia mai i te mauri moe o te rōpū. Ko tā tēnei tuhinga he hoatu pitopito whakaaturanga ki te āhua o tōku mātatau ki ngā whakaaro o Piona rāua ko Winikote i ahu mai i taku takinga i tēnei rōpū. Kua puta mai ki a au te whakaohomauri o te hinengaro mahinga ā rōpū, inā rā te noho a tēnā, ā tēnā i runga i te whakaaro ko te rōpū te tūrangawaewae , ā tē aro ake i te ahunga mai o tēnei whakaaro i hea.

A Psychoanalytic Perspective of Internet Abuse

2008 ◽  
pp. 3366-3374
Author(s):  
Feng-Yang Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Computer Abuse ◽  
Internet Abuse ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In this chapter I discuss Internet abuse from a psychoanalytic perspective. Internet abuse refers to the misuse of the Internet that leads to deterioration of both public and individual welfares. While past research has treated most computer abuse as the result of conscious decisions, the school of psychoanalysis provides insight into how the unconscious mind may influence one’s abusive conduct. Therefore, I argue that effective resolution of Internet abuse requires the knowledge of the unconscious mind. Although modern knowledge of this domain is still limited, I believe that this orientation is beneficiary to the construction of social systems embedding the Internet and their application to our work.

A Psychoanalytic Perspective of Internet Abuse

2004 ◽  
pp. 217-229
Author(s):  
Feng-Yang Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Computer Abuse ◽  
Internet Abuse ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In this chapter I discuss Internet abuse from a psychoanalytic perspective. Internet abuse refers to the misuse of the Internet that leads to deterioration of both public and individual welfares. While past research has treated most computer abuse as the result of conscious decisions, the school of psychoanalysis provides insight into how the unconscious mind may influence one’s abusive conduct. Therefore, I argue that effective resolution of Internet abuse requires the knowledge of the unconscious mind. Although modern knowledge of this domain is still limited, I believe that this orientation is beneficiary to the construction of social systems embedding the Internet and their application to our work.

Business: Conceptualizations of Organizational Change Viewed Through the Lens of Power: A Tutorial for the Speech-Language Pathologist/Audiologist Administrator

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Walden
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Theories Of Change ◽  
Or Organization

Both educational and health care organizations are in a constant state of change, whether triggered by national, regional, local, or organization-level policy. The speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator who aids in the planning and implementation of these changes, however, may not be familiar with the expansive literature on change in organizations. Further, how organizational change is planned and implemented is likely affected by leaders' and administrators' personal conceptualizations of social power, which may affect how front line clinicians experience organizational change processes. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to introduce the speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator to a research-based classification system for theories of change and to review the concept of power in social systems. Two prominent approaches to change in organizations are reviewed and then discussed as they relate to one another as well as to social conceptualizations of power.

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