Assédio Moral e a Violência Inata: Contribuições Freudianas aos Estudos das Organizações

Abstract

This theoretical paper aims to contribute to the discussion on bullying in productive organizations, understanding it as a structural issue of labor relations. It is argued that workplace violence is the result of elective affinities between the specific situation of contemporary society and the pulsional demands of the subject, linked to the death drive, which are in flow demands of modern life, especially in the constant search for performance improvement. Thus, this paper will seek to discuss the humans inherent violence, postulated by Freud in several of his texts, aiming point another possibility of the phenomenon interpretation. In the conclusions it is argued that only when the individual has real possibilities of sublimation in their work and in their leisure time the subject can escape, not entirely, from the negative effects of destruction instinct in the workplace