Psychoanalytic thinking and organizations

Psychoanalysis, potentially, is a theory that can expand the connections among seemingly diverse areas of human experience. Starting out as a discipline that discovers hitherto hidden connections within the individual and elucidates powerful subterranean forces producing profound effects on the surface, it holds out the promise of analogously (or causally) demonstrating intricate and unseen connections in the larger units in which all individuals live--family, tribe, organization. Overall, in today's end-of-the-20th-century world, we see the possibilities of using thinking developed in one discipline and domain to help understand another.