Potential space: The threatened source of individual and collective creativity

Gilles Amado
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Gilles Amado: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper is based upon the notion of potential space which is at the core of the transitional process described by D.W. Winnicott. Its aim is two-fold: first to argue about the threats that the new economic order and the contemporary organizations exert on this psychic space, therefore on individual and collective creativity and innovation; second, to present the limits of psychic control and, through the existence of spontaneous potential spaces and the description of a variety of constructed ones (in the areas of healthcare, sports, I.T., politics) the designs which are likely to help overcome the threats.

Keywords: Organizational behavior -- Psychological aspects; Winnicott; D. W. (Donald Woods); 1896-1971; Psychoanalysis; Imagination; Economic development -- Psychological aspects; Psychology; Industrial; Democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Published in Socio-Analysis, 2009, Vol.11, pp.16-35

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