Gordon Lawrence (1930–2010)

The papers in this collection represent two-and-a-half decades of work by one of the most prominent thinkers on psychoanalytic processes in organizations. W. Gordon Lawrence is known within the group relations community through both his writings, which have become core texts worldwide, and through his unique vision of psychoanalysis as a tool of cultural inquiry into the operation of the unconscious in the social arena.What is especially striking about Gordon Lawrences work is not simply the brilliance of his ideas and the depth of his commitments, but the elegance of his language and concepts. We have all had the experience of enchantment as he wrote or talked about social dreaming, about the politics of salvation and the politics of revelation, about a memoir of the future, and about the management of oneself in role. In all these phrases, and in the thinking behind them, Gordon Lawrence always seems to capture the deep resonance of our felt experience in a way that does indeed produce new thoughts, as well as the experience of being understood.Lawrence J. Gould… (mer)