Who will I be when I retire? Introducing a Lacanian typology at the intersection of present identity work and future narratives of the retired self
基于49位早期职业员工对退休期望的叙事分析，引入拉康精神分析框架，揭示退休叙事如何既强化身份与权力结构的依附，又为身份转型提供空间。
The study introduces a framework by which insights from Lacanian psychoanalysis can be employed to offer a more nuanced understanding of how retirement is currently being reinvented. Building on an analysis of 49 stories in which early-career employees describe their retirement aspirations, the study explores the complexities of how individuals draw on retirement discourse to articulate who they are and what they want. The analysis suggests that the narrative construction of retirement is not only a space for becoming further attached to fantasies that align identity with existing power structures but also a space in which to work through such attachments and open up identity in transformative ways. The study contributes novel perspectives on the effects of the contradictions in current retirement discourse at the interstice of identity, discourse and power, offering new avenues for research on retirement and identity.