Contemporary Masquerade: Work-Life Balance and Modern Tragedies of (Mis)Perceived/(Mis)Placed Social Agency
dc.contributor.author | Rogerson, Ann | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Mandy | |
dc.contributor.author | Coombes, Leigh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-16T00:40:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-12-16T00:40:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Within contemporary life, women struggle within discourses of stay-at-home mothering and working mother in terms of the detriment to a child’s development. Although contemporary research tends to isolate work-life balance as a separate set of conflicting discourses to study, I suggest that this isolation is misleading. Work-life balance encompasses every aspect of a woman’s speaking being or conscious home, social, caring and working experiences. Considering work-life as allencompassing allows for interesting interpretations when framing women’s work-life experiences within the confines of a language that seeks to dissect them into discrete parts. Furthermore, conflict surrounding work and life is not new and provide a cornerstone of traditional psychoanalytic theories of human development. Within this paper, I consider contemporary discourses of work-life balance, within the context of Riviere’s psychoanalytical concept of masquerade and Lacanian psychoanalysis that rereads Freud’s original works as a theory of discourse. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2324-1330 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4964 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | School of Psychology, Massey University | en |
dc.subject | Masquerade | en |
dc.subject | Psychoanalysis | en |
dc.subject | Worklife balance | en |
dc.subject | Lacan | en |
dc.subject | Soler | en |
dc.title | Contemporary Masquerade: Work-Life Balance and Modern Tragedies of (Mis)Perceived/(Mis)Placed Social Agency | en |
dc.type | Article | en |