•Machine •Organism •Brain •Culture •Political system •Psychic prison •Domination instrument

4. Paradigms in organizing theory Objective Sociology of Regulation Sociology of Radical actions Subjective Adapted from Burrell & Morgan (1979) Radical humanist paradigm Radical structuralist paradigm Interpretive paradigm Functionalist paradigm

6. Psychic Prison Sociology of Radical actions Subjective Objective Sociology of Regulation Instrument of domination Culture Machine Organisms Political System Adapted from Burrell & Morgan (1979) and Morgan (1983) Radical humanist paradigm Radical structuralist paradigm Interpretive paradigm Functionalist paradigm

12. The essence of society being the repression of the individual, and about the essence of the individual as being the repression of him/herself.

15. Obj Action Subj Regulate Organization as psychic prison Defense mechanisms: • Repression :”pushing down”unwanted impulses and ideas • Denial :refusal to acknowledge an impulse-evoking fact,feeling or memory • Displacement :shifting impulses aroused by one person or situation to a safer target • Fixation :rigid commitment to a particular attitude or behavior • Projection :attribution of one’s own feelings and impulses to others • Rationalization :creation of elaborate schemes of justification that disguise underlying motives and intentions • Idealization :playing up the good aspects of a situation to protect oneself from the bad • Splitting :isolating different elements of experience,often to protect the good from the bad.