Clinique de l'activité, haine, travail

Abstract

In this article, we seek to explain that while work always has at its centre the activity of work itself, the conflicts and hurts - often summarised under the term of moral harassment - that run through so many professional situations could still be resolved, according to the methodological conditions we shall attempt to explain. But then, where this is not the case for all, meaning that when the dénouement only comes into effect for some and not for others, what should be our conclusion? Are there subjects for whom, in the space-time of work they live in, it is not the activity necessary to accomplish that work that is central, but something else? Here then is the real question, through we could put it another way. What does the activity of work actually consist of? Instead of talking about what goes into it, we can define it according to its orientation. The activity is still addressed: it commits one through the mediation of an object to be dealt with, in an inevitable encounter with the other. It may then transpire that the failure to overcome conflicts running through a work-place situation is related to unresolved obstacles in (at least) one of these destinations of the activity. In this case, the metastable balance needed for this triple direction of the activity is broken by too high an investment in one of its poles. In any case, that is the hypothesis we put forward for the situation we discuss in this article.