Psychoanalysis and/as organization.

Insights gained in analysis and self-analysis cannot be transposed onto patients lock, stock, and barrel. The same holds true for the connection between psychoanalysis and organization. But in contrast to those adherents of Luhmann's systems theory who categorically deny any congruence whatsoever between psychoanalytic approaches and organization-specific problems, the author both advocates the deconstruction of the reduction of the unconscious to the Oedipal dimension and urges the utility of psychoanalytic insights for the description and solution of organizational problems, not least of psychoanalysis as organization. Basing his remarks on the theory of open systems and Bion's group model, which has found organization-specific application in the analyses of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Weimer unfolds ideas for a more extensive psychoanalytically oriented analysis of organization(s) and enumerates the structural problems and conflicts of psychoanalytic work regarded in terms of organization.