Where the Wild Things Are
研究组织时,与受访者深度接触会引发心理动力反应,如反移情。本文提出研究者梦境可作为增强反思实践的方法论资源,并通过剑桥赛艇队的田野调查案例说明。
Where the study of organizations involves prolonged or deep engagement with informants, the research experience can generate psychodynamic reactions. Countertransference—or the redirection of a researcher’s emotional response onto informants—is one such reaction and can influence data collection, analysis, and presentation. The methodological question then is how to identify and act on countertransference reactions during research. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, we suggest that researchers’ dreams can serve as methodological resources in enhancing reflexive practice. We illustrate our approach with an autoethnographic account of 199 days of fieldwork with a Cambridge Boat Race crew and outline several recommendations to help organizational researchers keen to see how they and their dreams are implicated in their work.