Preface to All Volumes

Makkreel, Rudolf A.; Rodi, Frithjof

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“…But a route to a way beyond theorising was there in front of us, in the poem The Snark. Poetry, the philosopher William Dilthey thought, is interlinked with philosophy and has the capacity to guide our imagination in several directions at once (Makkreel and Rodi, 1985). Heidegger argued similarly, writing that poetry shares with great art the power of truth-revealing capabilities (Pell, 2012).…”

Section: Conclusion: Fit the Ninth In Which We Escape The Bandersnatc...mentioning

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Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits

2022

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Since the nineteenth century much academic effort has been expended researching leadership. Bodies of theory have risen to dominance, proved unsatisfactory, and been replaced by another generation of ultimately-disappointing leadership thought. This repetitive pattern continues, so we ask what motivates this continuing, seemingly fruitless search? Focusing on researchers and not leadership per se, our analysis is inspired by two surprisingly complementary sources: psychoanalytical theory and Lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits. Together they lead to a theory that re/search is motivated by unconscious desires to experience the transformational object – an ultimately unachievable search but one that unconsciously sustains the ever-growing field of leadership research. In contributing a new psychoanalytical theory of unconscious motivations that inspire our research, we also demonstrate the inspiration poetry may offer organizational researchers. We conclude by offering a ninth fit which leaps into the void of future thought and finds that the leadership Snark was, in fact, a Boojum.

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Section: Conclusion: Fit the Ninth In Which We Escape The Bandersnatc...mentioning

confidence: 99%