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The Nature of Human Nature—The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life

In: Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education

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  • Ian I. Mitroff

    (University of Southern California
    University of California)

  • Can M. Alpaslan

    (California State University)

  • Ellen S. O’Connor

Abstract

Business schools split reality and favor one aspect of reality over another. They overemphasize the economical drivers of human behavior but they either ignore or are unaware of the effects of unconscious forces on human behavior. In this chapter, we concentrate on psychoanalysis almost exclusively because it still does not receive the recognition it deserves, and one cannot get to the heart of and hence treat complex social messes unless one can analyze and understand the immense and largely unconscious fears, anxieties, and paranoia that unfortunately are an important aspect of many messes. Dealing with messes fundamentally demands that we question why we have split the world into different disciplines, factors, professions, variables, the arts versus the sciences, etc. It demands that we question the ways in which we have divided up the world, and that we come up with ways to put them back together.

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  • Ian I. Mitroff & Can M. Alpaslan & Ellen S. O’Connor, 2014. "The Nature of Human Nature—The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education, chapter 4, pages 34-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-41205-8_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137412058_4
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