citation_author
Purser, Ronald E.
citation_volume
10
citation_publication_date
2012
citation_title
Deconstructing Lack: A Buddhist Perspective on Egocentric Organizations
citation_pdf_url
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/system/files/96-608-1-PB.pdf
citation_issue
4
citation_journal_title
Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
citation_issn
1532-5555
citation_firstpage
17
citation_lastpage
27
dcterms.title
Deconstructing Lack: A Buddhist Perspective on Egocentric Organizations
dcterms.creator
Purser
dcterms.subject
buddhism, lack, organizational identity, egocentric organizations
dcterms.description
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..
dcterms.contributor
Purser
dcterms.date
2012
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Text
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text/html
dcterms.identifier
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/pub/6446
dcterms.abstract
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..
dcterms.language
en
dcterms.modified
2021-10-26T10:54+02:00