Into the depths of the feminine: A Jungian perspective on postfeminist working life

IF 4.5 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Human Relations Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI:10.1177/00187267231199650

Aliette Lambert, George Ferns

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Abstract

How do women reject the feminine in postfeminist working life, and to what effects? Organisational scholars have long argued that the feminine is discouraged or reconfigured in neoliberal, postfeminist organisations that value masculine-oriented traits. But what the feminine encompasses, how it is rejected and to what effects is less clear. In this article, we draw on feminist post-Jungian theory, which understands the feminine as archetypal, emerging over thousands of years of human history and characterised by paradox, circularity, being and descent. Feminist Jungian thinkers agree that the archetypal feminine is neglected, if not denigrated, in neoliberal, capitalist cultures, much to our detriment. Reflecting on data from a qualitative, longitudinal study on early career formation and work experiences with 15 young women, we reflexively discuss how in postfeminist working life, disavowing the archetypal feminine manifests by: adhering to ascensionist ideals to the detriment of slowness and inactivity; engaging linear thinking to the detriment of cyclical, paradoxical being; and avowing rational objectivity to the detriment of embodied instinct. This engenders both collusion with postfeminist power structures and psychic effects such as dis-ease and anxiety, which we argue can be ameliorated by recognising and embracing the archetypal feminine within.

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进入女性的深处:荣格对后女权主义工作生活的看法

在后女权主义的工作生活中，女性是如何拒绝女性化的?长期以来，组织学者一直认为，在新自由主义、后女权主义的组织中，女性受到阻碍或被重新配置，这些组织重视男性导向的特征。但女性包含什么，它是如何被拒绝的，以及它的影响是什么，就不那么清楚了。在这篇文章中，我们借鉴了女权主义后荣格理论，该理论将女性理解为原型，在数千年的人类历史中出现，并以悖论、循环、存在和下降为特征。女权主义的荣格主义思想家们一致认为，在新自由主义和资本主义文化中，典型的女性即使没有被贬低，也被忽视了，这对我们非常不利。通过对15名年轻女性早期职业形成和工作经历的定性、纵向研究数据的反思，我们反思性地讨论了在后女权主义的工作生活中，如何通过以下方式否定女性原型:坚持上升主义理想，损害缓慢和不活跃;采用线性思维，损害周期性、悖论性的存在;承认理性的客观性损害了体现的本能。这既导致了与后女权主义权力结构的勾结，也导致了诸如疾病和焦虑等心理效应，我们认为，通过认识和拥抱内在的原型女性，这些效应可以得到改善。

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期刊介绍： Human Relations is an international peer reviewed journal, which publishes the highest quality original research to advance our understanding of social relationships at and around work through theoretical development and empirical investigation. Scope Human Relations seeks high quality research papers that extend our knowledge of social relationships at work and organizational forms, practices and processes that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and work organizations. Human Relations welcomes manuscripts that seek to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to develop new perspectives and insights into social relationships and relationships between people and organizations. Human Relations encourages strong empirical contributions that develop and extend theory as well as more conceptual papers that integrate, critique and expand existing theory. Human Relations welcomes critical reviews and essays: - Critical reviews advance a field through new theory, new methods, a novel synthesis of extant evidence, or a combination of two or three of these elements. Reviews that identify new research questions and that make links between management and organizations and the wider social sciences are particularly welcome. Surveys or overviews of a field are unlikely to meet these criteria. - Critical essays address contemporary scholarly issues and debates within the journal''s scope. They are more controversial than conventional papers or reviews, and can be shorter. They argue a point of view, but must meet standards of academic rigour. Anyone with an idea for a critical essay is particularly encouraged to discuss it at an early stage with the Editor-in-Chief. Human Relations encourages research that relates social theory to social practice and translates knowledge about human relations into prospects for social action and policy-making that aims to improve working lives.