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Of Wolves and Management
With Rasmus Johnsen | Copenhagen Business School
Monday 9th June | 4.30-6.30pm, WT1204
Part of the 'What is Medicine?' seminar series
The work-place psychopath: he lacks compassion, empathy, remorse, and any
sense of guilt. He is charming, manipulative, and sometimes very effective.
Everyone knows one or has heard a story about one. Although it is a serious
allegation, many people will say: "Yeah, I know…but I had a boss, I
swear, he was for real…" In Denmark, a trade union organizing commercial
and clerical employees has put an online test on their web-page to assist
their members in figuring out if their boss is one. But what is at stake in
the description of psychopathic behaviour at work? In this presentation I
will raise this question by examining the phenomenon of lycanthropy found
in medicine, trials, and folk lore of the middle-ages. Just as the werewolf
(lit.: man-wolf) is neither man nor beast, the work-place psychopath is
neither a corporate nor an authentic self – and yet somehow both the
were-wolf and the psychopath paradoxically must define precisely what they
cannot be.
Rasmus Johnsen has an MA in Philosophy and Literature and is a PhD Fellow
at the Department for Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen
Business School. He is currently working on a PhD involving a genealogy of
the relation between melancholy and achievement. He has also published on
stress management and the contemporary conceptualization of depression. He
is currently a visiting scholar at the CSISP.
Natalie Warner
Research Administrator (Tues, Thurs, Fri a.m. only)
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP)
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
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