Journal Article10.3917/nrp.013.0241
Under new management
Yiannis Gabriel
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TL;DR: Le sujet du management est devenu un sujet emotionnel en quete de sens et d’identite, lié au consumerisme et au libre choix.
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Abstract: A l’aune d’un nouveau managementDans le discours managerial, depuis les tout premiers travaux de Taylor et Weber, le sujet a ete envisage comme une ressource a deployer, mesurer et controler. Une modernite plus recente a cependant accouche d’une approche sensiblement differente du sujet : un sujet emotionnel en quete de sens et d’identite. Cette nouvelle conception trouve son origine dans l’interet croissant porte au consumerisme, au libre choix, au service client et dans le passage d’une economie industrielle a une societe de services dans laquelle l’emotion est devenue un aspect fondamental du travail. Dans la societe de consommation, chaque choix est faconne par les choix des consommateurs, et chaque choix, aussi insignifiant soit-il, devient un choix existentiel et identitaire. L’auteur avance que l’idee du libre choix est aujourd’hui une des illusions dominantes du Sujet, une illusion au nom de laquelle il serait pret a endurer un haut degre d’insecurite et de frustration. En conclusion, l’article suggere qu’un nouveau mecanisme de defense psychosociale – celui du singularisme – prend le pas sur des mecanismes de defense plus traditionnels. Alors que les mecanismes de defense precedents, enracines dans la dynamique œdipienne, sacrifiaient la liberte pour la securite et trouvaient consolation dans la routine bureaucratique, cette nouvelle configuration defensive accepte l’incertitude et l’imprevisibilite, mais se dote d’un voile imaginaire cense proteger le Sujet des coups de griffe du destin.
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