Suicide at work or the Durkheim paradox
Keywords:
suicide, Durkheim, anomie, cooperation, psychodynamics of workAbstract
Suicides at work occurred in large French companies helped to revive the debate on the causes of suicide, putting to date sociological theses once supplanted by medical and psychopathological approaches. Yet, while giving new life to the old ideas of Durkheim, these suicides are questioning some of the predictions of the French sociologist. Drawing on the contributions of work psychodynamics, we shall try to make visible the phenomenality of work, apparently insufficiently exploited by Durkheim. In doing so, we hope to show that the theses of the French sociologist are still relevant to understanding suicide at work.Downloads
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