Yes / This essay draws on insights taken from Lacanian psychoanalysis to rethink and resituate
notions of the self and subjectivity within the theory and practice of experiential leadership
development. Adopting an auto-ethnographic approach, it describes the author’s own
experience as a participant in a programme of equine assisted learning or ‘horse whispering’
and considers the consequences of human-animal interactions as a tool for self-development
and improvement. Through an analysis of this human/animal interaction, the essay presents
and applies three Lacanian concepts of subjectivity, desire and fantasy and considers their
form and function in determining the often fractured relationship between self and other that
characterises leader-follower relations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/10902 |
| Date | 2013 May 1920 |
| Creators | Kelly, Simon |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Journal of Management Education, vol 38/issue 2, by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2013 SAGE Publications Ltd. |
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