Burkard Sievers
Biographic Data
| ID | 2805100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burkard Sievers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burkard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sievers |
| SIGNATURE | SIEVERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wuppertal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A photograph of a little boy seen through the lens of the associative unconscious and collective memory
Towards a Socioanalysis of Capitalist Greed
This paper is based on the conviction that a socioanalytical perspective on capitalist greed—in general and in the context of the recent financial crisis in particular—requires a systemic perspective and must take into account the unconscious dynamics beneath the surface of contemporary capitalism. An excursus into the history and philosophy of greed demonstrates that it is a ubiquitous phenomenon, whose meaning refers both to the individual and …
Pictures from below the Surface of the University The Social Photo-Matrix as a Method for Understanding Organizations in Depth
The following is a first account and reflection on an experience with a ‘Social Photo-Matrix’ (SPM) as a method for experiential learning ‘in the making’. I recently invited students from our department of economics and business administration at Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany to focus on the unconscious dynamics of the university by using photos. During this one-term event, students were asked to make their own photos of the universi…
It is new, and it has to be done!’: Socio‐analytic Thoughts on Betrayal and Cynicism in Organizational Transformation
Contemporary western organizations appear to be caught in neophily, i.e., a cult of newness and novelty. As traditional means of organizational transformation—and profit maximization in particular—have broadly proven insufficient or to have completely failed, contemporary capitalism has turned the Old into an antiquated object of hatred. As the Old, and thus the past, is split off, the New—because it is new—is guaranteed to be better. Organizatio…
The economy of vengeance: Some considerations on the aetiology and meaning of the business of revenge
Throughout the history of mankind, revenge and vengeance have been deeply ingrained in our social fabric and richly portrayed in literature, music, drama, and film. Vengeance can be understood as a defence against annihilation anxieties, stimulated by the reactivation of injuries and losses experienced earlier in the lifetime of a system, fed by an institution's inability to acknowledge guilt and to integrate love and hate, and driven by the desi…
Power and politics
This special issue emphasizes psycho-/socio-analytic perspectives and elaborations on the relatedness of power and politics at a particularly sensitive moment in history. Both profit and non-profit institutions and organizations have been deeply affected by significant world events as well as their own problematic internal processes, all with profound implications for the economy and for leaders, executives and managers in groups of all kinds, fr…
Your Money or Your Life? Psychotic Implications of the Pension Fund System: Towards a Socio-Analysis of the Financial Services Revolution
The present Anglo-American pension funds system is based on totally different images of man, society, and social relatedness than the traditional social security systems and retirement schemes characteristic of welfare states in many European countries. This article is guided by the working hypothesis that the pension fund system, because of its inherent defenses against persecutory and depressive anxieties, is based on psychotic dynamics. Partic…
Psychotic Organization as a Metaphoric Frame for the Socioanalysis of Organizational and Interorganizational Dynamics
The notion of the pathological organization provides a starting frame for better understanding irrationality and madness in organizations, profit and nonprofit organizations alike. It has been used up until now to gain a better understanding of severe personality disturbances caused by pathological fixation. The concept originally referred to the narrow frame of individual ego organization, but it is argued that the notion of the psychotic organi…
Work, Death, and Life Itself: Essays on Management and Organization
Geheimnis und Geheimhaltung in sozialen Systemen
Geheimnis und Geheimhaltung in sozialen Systemen
Psychotic Organization as a Metaphoric Frame for the Socioanalysis of Organizational and Interorganizational Dynamics
The notion of the pathological organization provides a starting frame for better understanding irrationality and madness in organizations, profit and nonprofit organizations alike. It has been used up until now to gain a better understanding of severe personality disturbances caused by pathological fixation. The concept originally referred to the narrow frame of individual ego organization, but it is argued that the notion of the psychotic organi…
The economy of vengeance: Some considerations on the aetiology and meaning of the business of revenge
Throughout the history of mankind, revenge and vengeance have been deeply ingrained in our social fabric and richly portrayed in literature, music, drama, and film. Vengeance can be understood as a defence against annihilation anxieties, stimulated by the reactivation of injuries and losses experienced earlier in the lifetime of a system, fed by an institution's inability to acknowledge guilt and to integrate love and hate, and driven by the desi…
It is new, and it has to be done!’: Socio‐analytic Thoughts on Betrayal and Cynicism in Organizational Transformation
Contemporary western organizations appear to be caught in neophily, i.e., a cult of newness and novelty. As traditional means of organizational transformation—and profit maximization in particular—have broadly proven insufficient or to have completely failed, contemporary capitalism has turned the Old into an antiquated object of hatred. As the Old, and thus the past, is split off, the New—because it is new—is guaranteed to be better. Organizatio…
Your Money or Your Life? Psychotic Implications of the Pension Fund System: Towards a Socio-Analysis of the Financial Services Revolution
The present Anglo-American pension funds system is based on totally different images of man, society, and social relatedness than the traditional social security systems and retirement schemes characteristic of welfare states in many European countries. This article is guided by the working hypothesis that the pension fund system, because of its inherent defenses against persecutory and depressive anxieties, is based on psychotic dynamics. Partic…
Geheimnis und Geheimhaltung in sozialen Systemen
Geheimnis und Geheimhaltung in sozialen Systemen
Work, Death, and Life Itself: Essays on Management and Organization
Psychotic Organization as a Metaphoric Frame for the Socioanalysis of Organizational and Interorganizational Dynamics
The notion of the pathological organization provides a starting frame for better understanding irrationality and madness in organizations, profit and nonprofit organizations alike. It has been used up until now to gain a better understanding of severe personality disturbances caused by pathological fixation. The concept originally referred to the narrow frame of individual ego organization, but it is argued that the notion of the psychotic organi…
Your Money or Your Life? Psychotic Implications of the Pension Fund System: Towards a Socio-Analysis of the Financial Services Revolution
The present Anglo-American pension funds system is based on totally different images of man, society, and social relatedness than the traditional social security systems and retirement schemes characteristic of welfare states in many European countries. This article is guided by the working hypothesis that the pension fund system, because of its inherent defenses against persecutory and depressive anxieties, is based on psychotic dynamics. Partic…
The economy of vengeance: Some considerations on the aetiology and meaning of the business of revenge
Throughout the history of mankind, revenge and vengeance have been deeply ingrained in our social fabric and richly portrayed in literature, music, drama, and film. Vengeance can be understood as a defence against annihilation anxieties, stimulated by the reactivation of injuries and losses experienced earlier in the lifetime of a system, fed by an institution's inability to acknowledge guilt and to integrate love and hate, and driven by the desi…
Power and politics
This special issue emphasizes psycho-/socio-analytic perspectives and elaborations on the relatedness of power and politics at a particularly sensitive moment in history. Both profit and non-profit institutions and organizations have been deeply affected by significant world events as well as their own problematic internal processes, all with profound implications for the economy and for leaders, executives and managers in groups of all kinds, fr…
Pictures from below the Surface of the University The Social Photo-Matrix as a Method for Understanding Organizations in Depth
The following is a first account and reflection on an experience with a ‘Social Photo-Matrix’ (SPM) as a method for experiential learning ‘in the making’. I recently invited students from our department of economics and business administration at Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany to focus on the unconscious dynamics of the university by using photos. During this one-term event, students were asked to make their own photos of the universi…
It is new, and it has to be done!’: Socio‐analytic Thoughts on Betrayal and Cynicism in Organizational Transformation
Contemporary western organizations appear to be caught in neophily, i.e., a cult of newness and novelty. As traditional means of organizational transformation—and profit maximization in particular—have broadly proven insufficient or to have completely failed, contemporary capitalism has turned the Old into an antiquated object of hatred. As the Old, and thus the past, is split off, the New—because it is new—is guaranteed to be better. Organizatio…
Towards a Socioanalysis of Capitalist Greed
This paper is based on the conviction that a socioanalytical perspective on capitalist greed—in general and in the context of the recent financial crisis in particular—requires a systemic perspective and must take into account the unconscious dynamics beneath the surface of contemporary capitalism. An excursus into the history and philosophy of greed demonstrates that it is a ubiquitous phenomenon, whose meaning refers both to the individual and …
A photograph of a little boy seen through the lens of the associative unconscious and collective memory
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Unconscious mind (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)