Object Relations, Work and the Self - Hardcover

Levine, David P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415479975 ISBN 13: 9780415479974

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work: guilt, greed and the self. Special attention is paid to the factors that determine the individual’s emotional capacity to do work that engages the self and its creative potential and to the related matter of impairment in that capacity. Chapters include:

• the problem of work
• greed, envy and the search for the self
• skill, power and authority
• work and reality.

Object Relations, Work and the Self will be of interest to psychoanalysts and organizational consultants as well as anyone concerned with what determines the quality of life in the workplace.

About this title

About the Author

David P. Levine is a Professor and Director of the International Administration degree program at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He has published extensively in the fields of applied psychoanalysis and group dynamics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415479975
• ISBN 13: 9780415479974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154