Are You Trapped In Your Childhood?

01/26/2004

Are You Trapped In Your Childhood?

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein

ARE YOU TRAPPED IN YOUR CHILDHOOD

In commenting on a case study in the January 2004 issue of the Harvard Business Review, phychoanalyst and organizational consultant, Kenneth Eisold, makes this observation about leadership...

"One of Freud's greatest insights had to do with the phenomenon of transference. People transfer onto current relationships the conflicts and assumptions generated in childhood relationships. They keep assuming that they are in the same constellation of roles and so repeat patterns of behavior. Most people experience their siblings, their fathers, their mothers, and so on, on the job. Everyone has transferrence; the question is, 'How trapped are they in those patterns.?'"

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