Psyche at Work

Almost everyone participates in work groups and organizations. Often more time and energy is spent in these contexts than anywhere else. Individuals can be wounded by the power of organizations and the organizational unconscious. The question is how to grow and benefit from these involvements. The individual person’s unconscious and the unconscious of the organization intermesh, and the individual projects onto the organization as the organization also projects onto the individual. Archetypal roles are assigned and taken up, or resisted and fought. Conflicts arise around misperceptions and misguided ambitions and longings. The psychological task for both individual and organization is to become conscious of these dynamics and to use them for further development. In the lecture, Dr. Stein will apply Jungian theory and the alchemical model to psyche in the workplace.