PSYCHOANALYTIC NOTES FOR RETHINKING THE DISCOURSE OF HAPPINESS IN COMPANIES
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Interdisciplinarity , Psychoanalysis , Subject , Discourse , HappinessAbstract
This work is a critical essay, starting from the discourse of corporate happiness. To assess the assumption of the incompleteness of happiness, it seeks to present some key theoretical elements: the determined subject; organizational discourse; and the renunciation of the satisfaction of drives. A subject molded by immanence and not transcendence, under the atmosphere of a morality fueled by discourses and practices that shape identity. To analyze happiness, it uses as a basis Sigmund Freud's work Civilization and Its Discontents, where he reflects on the pleasure principle. To address worker well-being, it draws on considerations from Byung-Chul Han's work The Burnout Society, as well as the report Guidelines on Mental Health at Work (2022), published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Without any definitive pretension, the essay seeks to be an initial critique of discourses of happiness in the corporate environment. And, resorting to Greek mythology and the Beds of Procrustes, it reinforces the idea of the subject who is composed through his elimination, sometimes mutilated and other times outlawed.
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