Emotional Logic and Decision Making: The interface between professional upheaval and personal evolution

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
List of Exhibits......Page 12
List of Questionnaires......Page 14
Preface: Why \"Self-Management\"?......Page 16
Prologue: From Economic to Emotional Man......Page 18
Foreword: The Epistemological Position of This Work......Page 20
1. A Defense for the Introduction of Emotional Production in the Field of Decision Theory......Page 34
2. Scientific Status......Page 36
3. Managerial Status......Page 42
4. The Contribution of the \"Emotional Production\" Concept......Page 46
5. The Nature of Emotional Production......Page 49
1 Gratifying Situations: The Resolution and the Acquisition of Know-How......Page 56
1. The Application of Know-how......Page 58
2. The Acquisition of Know-how......Page 63
3. Associated Emotional Production......Page 69
5. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 70
1. The Preliminaries......Page 72
2. The Situation Deteriorates......Page 75
3. Associated Emotional Production......Page 83
4. Associated Emotional Conflict: \"Approach–Avoidance\"......Page 93
5. The Practice of Counterfire......Page 96
6. The Neurosis of the \"Workaholic\"......Page 99
7. Psychological Energy......Page 102
8. Resistance to Obstacles......Page 103
9. Avoiding Challenge......Page 106
10. Neurosis of the \"Fugitive\"......Page 107
11. Passive Acceptance of Challenge: Doing Nothing and Inhibition......Page 109
12. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 116
1. Material Situation Linked to Place in the Hierarchy......Page 118
2. Emotional Situation Linked to Place in the Hierarchy......Page 120
3. Alienation, Impotence and Surrender......Page 121
4. Feelings of Dependence......Page 125
5. Hierarchical Anxiety......Page 129
6. The Feeling of Belonging......Page 134
7. Emotional Blindness......Page 135
8. Emotional Conflict: \"Avoidance–Avoidance\"......Page 139
9. Active Submission to Authority......Page 141
10. Passive Resistance to Authority......Page 143
11. Active Resistance to Authority......Page 148
13. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 150
1. The Principle of Limited Behavioral Capacity......Page 153
2. The Feeling of Failure......Page 154
3. Refusal of Failure: The Search for a Guilty Party......Page 157
4. Acceptance of Failure: The Feeling of Guilt......Page 159
5. The Neurosis of the \"Guilty\"......Page 164
6. Emotional Collapse......Page 167
7. The Growth of Emotional Resistance......Page 168
8. The Disapprenticeship of Success......Page 172
9. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 175
5 Irreversible Situations......Page 177
1. The Permanence of Irreversibility......Page 178
2. The Scientific Exception: The Disappearance of Aversive Situations......Page 180
3. The Increase of Aversive Situations......Page 183
4. The Point of No Return......Page 189
5. The Status of Victim......Page 193
7. The Grieving Process......Page 195
8. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 208
1. The Paradox of Success......Page 211
2. Positive Emotional Production......Page 214
3. The Dynamic of Growth Choices......Page 218
4. Factors Resulting in Successful Situations......Page 220
5. How to Develop the Symbolic Function......Page 226
6. A Brief Overview of This Chapter......Page 229
Epilogue: From Emotional to Symbolic Man......Page 234
The Integration Process of Suffering......Page 236
Case Studies......Page 239
Notes......Page 249
Bibliography......Page 255