@misc{Kahn_Susan_Eros_2016, author={Kahn, Susan}, identifier={DOI: 10.15611/mf.2016.3.05}, year={2016}, rights={Pewne prawa zastrzeżone na rzecz Autorów i Wydawcy}, publisher={Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu}, description={Management Forum, 2016, vol. 4, no. 3, s. 29-40}, language={eng}, abstract={The unpredictability of work and the absence of lifetime institutions forces us to confront our occupational mortality. This paper grapples with the instinct towards life; Eros; and towards destruction; Thanatos;1 in the context of working life. It deals with death and explores the consequences of an anticipated workplace mortality. This paper brings a fresh approach to understanding organizational endings through the application of psychoanalytic notions of death. First I present the theoretical basis of death in psychoanalysis: the death drive and mourning and melancholia. I then examine the treatment of death in organizations before briefly applying the theory to a research case based in the City of London post the 2008 financial crisis}, title={Eros and Thanatos: A psychoanalytic examination of death in the context of working life}, type={artykuł}, keywords={Thanatos, death drive, mourning and melancholia, organizational endings, popęd śmierci, żałoba i melancholia, koniec życia organizacji}, }