L'institution de la « vie mutilée»

Abstract

All human institutions are created to counter real or phantasized original violence. They cannot, however, help the fact of preserving within themselves a part of what they had intended to refuse and exorcise. In Western society, it is most probably in the business world (in companies and administration) that the death drive is at its most destructive. The aim of this study is to reveal the different forms taken both by this particular drive within this type of institution, and by the resistance that the life drive manifests against it, and also to indicate the necessary minimal conditions for the latter to manifest itself and, on occasion, to check the former.