“…The potential for psychoanalysis to explore emotional conflicts such as these, opening a valuable window into the world of organizations by offering fresh insights with extensive explanatory powers and ample practical implications, has been well documented (Gabriel and Carr, 2002;Fotaki et al, 2012;Gabriel, 1998;Carr, 2002;Paul et al, 2002). By accessing organizational anxieties and revealing unconscious social dynamics, a psychoanalytic lens can shed light into some of the darkest corners of workplace life, exposing employees' competing phantasies (Long, 2008;Fraher, 2004Fraher, , 2016de Swarte, 1998). For example, psychodynamic studies include Barings Bank (Brown, 2005), Lehman Brothers (Stein, 2013), Long Term Capital Management (Long, 2008), NASA (Schwartz, 1987;Feldman, 2004), and the NHS (Fraher, 2011).…”