Longing

Petrucelli, Jean

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“…The rupture created by the sudden emptiness, the poetic liminality revealed in our everyday context, brought about yet another powerful transformation. Desires and cravings are future-orientated, whereas life is going on now (Petrucelli, 2006). Desire is the elusive promise whose fulfilment is always pushed further back into the future, and this gap is a source of suffering.…”

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“…Freud’s vision of society as a mechanism of suppression and sublimation of desire still provides a good starting point for thinking about the contemporary world, but no longer provides adequate explanations. Jean Petrucelli’s (2006) psychoanalytic rethinking of longing and desire moves beyond Freud, but still focuses more on individual rather than organizational or group experience. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1998) uses Freudian language to note thatthe work of socialization of the libido is precisely what transforms impulses into specific interests, socially constructed interests which only exist in relation to a social space (pp.…”

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Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies

Kociatkiewicz

Kostera

2022

Management Learning

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Whether a harbinger of a new era or an anomaly, the year 2020 confronted students and teachers alike with the necessity of reassessing and reformulating teaching and learning possibilities and practicalities. In this very subjective text, we examine some of our own experiences of higher education under lockdown and physical distancing conditions. In an apparent paradox, the changed conditions simultaneously added more stress and uncertainty to the students’ learning process while also providing the learners with more confidence to question the established norms. Against the background of ongoing systemic collapse, we explore our own and our students’ stories and poems chronicling learning in a time of crisis and constraint. Drawing on critiques of modern consumer capitalism underpinning management education, we use the experience of a ruptured semester to propose a reinterpretation of management learning as rooted in the paradoxes of desire and longing: for success, career, but also for enlightenment, revelation, social change and togetherness. We ask the reader to embrace the poetic and libidinal aspects of desire and longing as central to the transformative potential of the learning encounter and propose to reconstitute the basis for education as rooted in desire and longing: for contact, for learning, for revelation.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Longingmentioning

confidence: 99%