The book offers a radical, refreshing, innovative, provocative, and generative perspective on conflict solution whether in an organization or government. It also offers an entirely new set of terms and concepts to access, utilize, and share unconscious creativity. Almost all the top-down organizational assumptions in government and business stifle creativity rather than facilitate it. The book offers a multitude of practical improvements that will alter our understanding of vision and creativity.>

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Christopher Bollas has been in psychoanalytical practice for over fifty years. A former Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Rome, he is the author of more than twenty-five books.****

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Table of Contents

1. psychoanalysis in the age of bewilderment 22
2. return of the oppressed 56
3. organizational pathologies and the compound 70
   syndrome
   4 unconscious thinking 86
4. the focus group 92
5. take a hike 96
6. the workplace and the work day 101
7. the dream team 108
8. how does this actually work? 112
9. an example: "perfume in the jungle" 118
10. assessing an organizations psychological capability 123
11. forming the group mind 128
12. creating genera 132
13. the value of wisdom: use the elderly 141
14. the pool of knowledge & the use of culture 142
15. the logic of the present 147
16. morphogenesis 151
17. broader uses 155
18. facing the future 158
19. the chain of events 168
20. "IT" 170
21. the uses of depression 178
22. daydreaming 184
23. the production of meaning 195
24. the pool of knowledge and the future 198
25. Id capitalism 224
26. Afterwards 231