Socioanalysis is a new social science discipline in the making. It goes beyond the perception of ... more Socioanalysis is a new social science discipline in the making. It goes beyond the perception of social systems as isolated organizations and/or groups. As a term, it emerged in the late 1990s amongst some of our Australian colleagues. Developed from psychoanalysis, socioanalysis is at the confluence of various disciplines, theories and approaches to experiential learning. The fact that these foundations, with the exception of psychoanalysis, were mainly developed during the second half of the last century, prompted me to explore whether there might be other precursors in fiction and social science literature. I am aiming here to extend the socioanalytic foundations of trust, distrust, the lie, betrayal, deception and the secret. I will revisit two works, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, published in 1857, and Georg Simmel’s Sociolog y, published 50 years later in 1908. My intent is to establish these authors’ legacy for the study of organizations and society in depth and to integrate their thinking into our contemporary perspective. This paper is not least an encouragement to further extend our socioanalytic foundations by including those proto-psychoanalysts and -socioanalysts amongst the poets and scholars who were developing their ideas at a time when socioanalysis was still an unthought known.
Socioanalysis is a new social science discipline in the making. It goes beyond the perception of ... more Socioanalysis is a new social science discipline in the making. It goes beyond the perception of social systems as isolated organizations and/or groups. As a term, it emerged in the late 1990s amongst some of our Australian colleagues. Developed from psychoanalysis, socioanalysis is at the confluence of various disciplines, theories and approaches to experiential learning. The fact that these foundations, with the exception of psychoanalysis, were mainly developed during the second half of the last century, prompted me to explore whether there might be other precursors in fiction and social science literature. I am aiming here to extend the socioanalytic foundations of trust, distrust, the lie, betrayal, deception and the secret. I will revisit two works, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, published in 1857, and Georg Simmel’s Sociolog y, published 50 years later in 1908. My intent is to establish these authors’ legacy for the study of organizations and society in depth and to integrate their thinking into our contemporary perspective. This paper is not least an encouragement to further extend our socioanalytic foundations by including those proto-psychoanalysts and -socioanalysts amongst the poets and scholars who were developing their ideas at a time when socioanalysis was still an unthought known.
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I am aiming here to extend the socioanalytic foundations of trust, distrust, the lie, betrayal, deception and the secret. I will revisit two works, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, published in 1857, and Georg Simmel’s Sociolog y, published 50 years later in 1908. My intent is to establish these authors’ legacy for the study of organizations and society in depth and to integrate their thinking into our contemporary perspective. This paper is not least an encouragement to further extend our socioanalytic foundations by including those proto-psychoanalysts and -socioanalysts amongst the poets and scholars who were developing their ideas at a time when socioanalysis was still an unthought known.
I am aiming here to extend the socioanalytic foundations of trust, distrust, the lie, betrayal, deception and the secret. I will revisit two works, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, published in 1857, and Georg Simmel’s Sociolog y, published 50 years later in 1908. My intent is to establish these authors’ legacy for the study of organizations and society in depth and to integrate their thinking into our contemporary perspective. This paper is not least an encouragement to further extend our socioanalytic foundations by including those proto-psychoanalysts and -socioanalysts amongst the poets and scholars who were developing their ideas at a time when socioanalysis was still an unthought known.