On Private Madness is a collection of papers by the French psychoanalyst André Green. 1 In his introduction to the book, Green writes: Freud already knew that the boundaries between neurosis and normality are barely discernable. Following him, we have learned that many persons who are well adapted to social and …
In my previous post1 I argued that rather than talk about corporate or organisational pathology it might make more sense to speak of corporate pathologisation or the pathological effects of corporate life. Otherwise we end up treating the organisation itself as the pathological subject, which creates all kinds of conceptual …
A while ago I wrote a number of posts relating to what I described as ‘corporate pathology’, and linking this closely with the crisis in the financial industry. However, as I argued in at least one of these posts1, the concept of a ‘pathological’ corporation or organisation is not without …
