Gendering the silences: psychoanalysis, gender and organization studies

Abstract

By the very nature of its concerns (i.e. a search for deep‐seated meanings within our understandings of organizations and the people who enact them), psychoanalysis has much to offer management practice in the twenty‐first century. We contend that, given its focus, the growing concerns with the dynamics of gender at work places a particular burden on psychoanalysis. Drawing on insights from debates within feminist psychoanalysis, we suggest a strategy for applying psychoanalysis that is capable of dealing with the gendered aspects of organizational dynamics.

Citation

Lowe, L., Mills, A. and Mullen, J. (2002), "Gendering the silences: psychoanalysis, gender and organization studies", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 422-434. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940210432655