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Organization as an emotional network

Unconscious dynamics and life-deep learning

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Organizations are important structures of our institutional, individual and social common life. They have an official, rational and cognitive primary task, but they do not always function according to it. From a psychoanalytic perspective – as a result of observations made with a psychoanalytic method – organizations work, at the same time, on two different levels: one is rational and oriented to the task.

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Riva, M.G. (2019). Organization as an emotional network. In: Weber, S., Truschkat, I., Schröder, C., Peters, L., Herz, A. (eds) Organisation und Netzwerke. Organisation und Pädagogik, vol 26. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20372-6_7

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