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Introduction: the hedgehog is embarrassed by his riches -- The pristine self: psychodynamics of the anti-bullying movement -- Putnam's paradox: diversity, destruction of community, and anti-Oedipal psychology -- Analysis of a racism hoax at Oberlin College -- Anti-Oedipal dynamics in the sub-prime loan debacle: the case of a study by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank -- Analysis of the British riots of 2011 -- What was the Occupy Wall Street protest a protest of? -- Conclusion: Christakis at Thermopylae

Howard S. Schwartz shows how American industry is in a process of decay unable to cope with foreign competition and stagnant in technological development. He attributes this Organizational Decay to a reluctance in the part of corporate members to deal with reality

Political correctness represents the attempt to eliminate the father, often referred to as the patriarch, who is seen as having deprived us of our connection to mother and all of her goodness. But what has really deprived us of our connection to mother's goodness is not the father, but reality itself. Political correctness therefore represents an attempt to destroy reality. This attempt to destroy the father as the representation of reality represents a different way of constructing meaning than we have in the traditional Oedipal arrangement. But the traditional arrangement made organization possible, whereas anti-paternal psychology undertakes to destroy organization. When organizations give themselves to political correctness they therefore reorganize themselves toward self-destruction. I call that process organizational nihilism.

The roots of the postmodernist denigration of the patriarch are traced to the postwar middle class family. The premise of this family was that the father would work and make possible a sphere of family life in which maternal influences, based on a primordial image of the mother, could operate without constraint. But identification with the primordial mother was psychologically insupportable for the mother, who blamed the father and enlisted the son in her antagonism. This deprived the son of the possibility of forming a superego and resulted in his aliention. The daughter raised the antagonism to the level of social program and carried it forward.

Men's attitude toward women is deeply ambivalent. Women are the centers of men's emotional lives, but men are deeply afraid of them. The meaning of male work arises from this ambivalence. It represents an attempt to engage and transform reality in order to gain connection with the female without becoming completely dependent on her. Manichean feminism is a form of feminism that sees gender differentiation as an opposition of the forces of goodness, identified with the female, against the forces of badness, identified with the male. It is based on the premise that reality can be denied, and represents the repudiation of males who engage it.

Anti-social actions of organizationally committed individuals are explained on the basis of the 'ontological function' of organizations. This is the function of providing a sense of identity, or Being, to participants whose identity is in question. The identity that thus develops is threatened by perceived threats to the organization, and anti-social action can result. It is shown how the development of the potentiality for such anti-social action is built into the process of socialization for organizational commitment.

The present paper reinterprets Maslow's hierarchy in a way that is consistent with Maslow's own characterizations of his hierarchy as (a) psychodynamic, (b) psychoanalytic, and (c) a hierarchy of character types. It is demonstrated that the resulting hierarchy represents the differential construction, or enactment, of social and organizational reality. The orientations toward work and work organizations of persons at each stage are derived.