2007
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100116
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Organizational Change and the Analytic Third: Locating and Attending to Unconscious Organizational Psychodynamics

Abstract: This article examines the concept of the analytic third in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically informed organizational change. The analytic third is often defined as the psychological (triangular) space between self and other, subject and object, fantasy and reality -the third dimension that emerges from two persons fully engaged in the exploration of unconscious meanings, reasons, motives and actions. In neo-Kleinian object relations, it is viewed as the intersubjective dimension of transference and counter… Show more

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“…The collaborative nature of the organisational role analysis approach, with its emphasis on generating hypotheses (Newton et al, 2006) stimulated interest and curiosity in uncovering deeper layers of meaning (Brunning, 2006). Within the reflective and contained space that the coaching provided (Diamond, 2007;Kilburg, 2004), the executives were more willing to process their learning about intrapsychic, interpersonal and systemic factors, transferential and counter-transferential processes, defence mechanisms and using the self as an instrument. They were also more willing to shift from the paranoidschizoid position to the depressive one (Klein, 1997) and to take risks on behalf of their organisations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The collaborative nature of the organisational role analysis approach, with its emphasis on generating hypotheses (Newton et al, 2006) stimulated interest and curiosity in uncovering deeper layers of meaning (Brunning, 2006). Within the reflective and contained space that the coaching provided (Diamond, 2007;Kilburg, 2004), the executives were more willing to process their learning about intrapsychic, interpersonal and systemic factors, transferential and counter-transferential processes, defence mechanisms and using the self as an instrument. They were also more willing to shift from the paranoidschizoid position to the depressive one (Klein, 1997) and to take risks on behalf of their organisations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An important task of coaches is to provide safe (Lee, 2010) and holding (Winnicott, 1965) environments to facilitate reflective containment (Diamond, 2007;Kilburg, 2000). Key aspects of containment include a formal agreement, boundary conditions, information exchanges (Diamond, 2007), deep listening, reliability and openness (Huffington et al, 2004).…”
Section: Organisational Role Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In contemporary post‐Kleinian and intersubjective traditions, theorizing the oedipal triangle has been transformed into less concrete understandings of what might constitute foundational threes, and the importance of symbolic thirdness in thinking about and relating to the self and the other has emerged. There is a rich field of theory about thirdness (see, for example, the overview given in Diamond, ) and I will select just two areas of this theory – Ronald Britton's concept of the triangular space of thinking, and selected themes on thirdness from Jessica Benjamin's work in intersubjectivity theory.…”
Section: Part 2 Selected Ideas Allied With Psychoanalysismentioning
confidence: 99%