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The Imaginary
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TL;DR: In this paper, a psychoanalytic perspective on creativity in organizations is developed from which creativity may be understood as an imaginary construction of the self, which is useful to the creative person as subject of the unconscious providing opportunities for struggles with otherness and alienation.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to advance research on creativity in organizations by developing a psychoanalytic perspective from which creativity may be understood as an imaginary construction of the self. This self aims at producing the new and useful yet fails to do so. The useful is only marginally so, and many of the interactions designed to ensure usefulness result in socially useless activities. The article suggests, however, that from a psychoanalytic perspective, the failure of the imaginary is also useful. It is useful to the creative person as subject of the unconscious providing opportunities for struggles with otherness and alienation. Such struggles allow respondents to experience their creative potential and produce something beyond organizational kitsch. The implications for the theory and practice of organizational creativity are discussed.
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: The Imaginary Audition as discussed by the authors proposes a new approach that cuts between the extremes of theater-centered reading and armchair reading, and demonstrates this approach in a radically new interpretation of "Richard II".
Abstract: "Imaginary Audition" responds to a major current conflict in Shakespeare studies between proponents of close reading of the academic armchair variety and proponents of what is called theater-centered (or performance-centered) interpretation. This conflict has come into focus at the intersection of several lines of reaction to the New-Critical and poetic-drama approaches practiced during the middle decades of the century: the revival of the "theater-centered" criticism that has flourished since the 60s; the rise of metatheatrical and metapoetic criticism in the same period; new developments in psychoanalysis and gender-theoretical criticism; new approaches to textual scholarship and editing; and the reorientation of social, political, cultural, and historical analysis associated with the new historicism.Harry Berger, Jr., confronts the first two of these developments. Beginning with a sustained critique of the theoretical premises and the practice of Richard Levine and Gary Taylor, he proposes a new approach that cuts between the extremes of theater-centered reading and armchair reading, and demonstrates this approach in a radically new interpretation of "Richard II". The close articulation of critique, theory, and interpretation lays the ground for a new approach to the reading of Shakespeare, one that will be more fully demonstrated in Berger's extended study of the Henriad, now in progress, and to which "Imaginary Audition" serves as a kind of prologue.
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TL;DR: The interaction between imaginary and real places, which has been for years an operating function of fiction, is increasing both qualitatively and quantitatively as discussed by the authors, is not limited to cinema but also affects literature and art.
Abstract: Places play an important role as anchoring fictional (books, movies, songs, video games) as well as artistic universes to reality. Conversely, imaginary places affect the way people perceive real places. 'Set-jetting', which transforms film locations into tourist attractions, is a perfect example of the increasing demand for connecting fictional spaces with real places. The interaction of imaginary and real places, which has been for years an operating function of fiction, is increasing both qualitatively and quantitatively. This is not limited to cinema but also affects literature and art. Once located on a map, the fictional place becomes attractive for tourists and a potential source of profit. The connection between imaginary and real places has been transformed by recent dramatic changes in communication and information technologies, and more specifically in the domain of geospatial technologies. These technologies offer more effective ways of georeferencing locations in films, books and art ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, with a view to ascertaining the place and function of the so-called imaginary in it, the symbolic as well as the real.
Abstract: The thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, is examined in this paper with a view to ascertaining the place and function of the so-called imaginary in it, the symbolic as well as the ‘real’. The extent to which the imaginary or realm of images is construed by Lacan as being the order of identification and a (spurious) sense of unity of the ego or self, is contrasted with the symbolic (or linguistic) order as that of the subject and of desire, in fact, of the subject of desire. The place and meaning of the enigmatic third register in Lacan’s thought, namely the ‘real’, is also addressed in relation to the question of desire. Furthermore, the question is raised, where philosophy in its traditional sense belongs - to the Lacanian register of the imaginary or to that of the symbolic.
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, Julien shows that Lacan's return to Freud was neither a closing of the Freudian text by responding to questions left unanswered nor a reopening of the text by giving endless new interpretations Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan returned to Frued was the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as it is discovered.
Abstract: Among the numerous introductions to Lacan published to date in English, Philippe Julien's work is certainly outstanding Beyond its conceptual clarity the book constitutes an excellent guide to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice --Andr Patsalides, Psychoanalyst and President, Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis From 1953 to 1980, Jacques Lacan sought to accomplish a return to Freud beyond post- Freudianism He defined this return as a new convenant with the meaning to the Freudian discovery Each year through his teaching, he brought about this return What was at stake in this renewal? Philippe Julien, who joined Lacan's Ecole Freudienne de Paris in 1968, attempts to answer this question Situtated in the period after-Lacan, Julien shows that Lacan's return to Freud was neither a closing of the Freudian text by responding to questions left unanswered nor a reopening of the text by giving endless new interpretations Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return to Frued was the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as it is discovered It is in this sense that the author can claim that Lacan's return to Freud will have been Freudian Constantly challenging the reader to submit to the rigors of Lacan's sinuous thinking, this penetrating work goes far beyond being a mere introduction Rendered into elegant English by the American translator, who added numerous footnotes and scholarly references to the French original, this study brings Lacanian scholarship among English readers to a new level of sophistication Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return to Freud was the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as it is discovered It is in this sense that the author can claim that Lacan's return to Freud was Freudian
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