1. Covid-19: an intrusion of the real the unconscious unleashes its truth.
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Western, Simon
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BIOTIC communities , *ECOLOGY , *LEADERSHIP , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PUBLIC health , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
This paper explores how Covid-19 is much more than a natural intrusion into our human world. Covid-19 reveals our interconnectivity, how nature needs to be re-imagined beyond our 20th century perceptions of it being an outside force, something of beauty to observe and protect, or to use as a resource or to control when disruptive. The paper takes a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective to reflect on Covid-19 as master signifier of contagion. Covid19 is an intrusion of a traumatic Real into our lifeworlds. The Real enunciates a particular truth to us; that we live in a precarious, inter-dependent connected world, undoing the hegemony and fantasy of what J.A Miller calls Capitalism-Science. There is no human versus nature, no war against the virus, because the pandemic is more than just an intrusive virus, it's an Event (Badiou) produced by our social, technological and environmental ecosystems. The paper concludes by introducing Eco-Leadership (Western 2019) a theory and practice for leaders and organisations to adapt, and begin to address the truth of our precarious, interdependent connectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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