Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Deconstructing Lack: A Buddhist Perspective on Egocentric Organizations

Purser, Ronald E.

San Francisco State University

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Abstrakt

This paper advances the Buddhist insight of ‗no-self‘ as a foundation for theorizing the phenomenon of lack, and how such a sense of lack is symptomatic of a more fundamental and primary repression: a fear of no-self, or egolessness. Egocentric organizations depend on the reproduction of collective lack and underlying ontological insecurity, which manifests as a desire to be real, enduring, and self-existent. Egocentric organizational dynamics bind anxiety by channeling ‗reality projects‘ which feed compulsive desires for power, territory and control. The Buddhist perspective offers a liberative path as a counterforce to dominant egocentric organizational narratives. Rather than accepting lack as cultural condition, the Buddhist path focuses the mind directly on the source of lack, which, paradoxically is a gateway to seeing through the delusion of the egocentric self..

Metadane

Czasopismo Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Tom 10 
Numer 4 
Data wydania 2012 
Typ Article 
Język en
Paginacja 17-27
ISSN 1532-5555