Contemporary Masquerade: Work-Life Balance and Modern Tragedies of (Mis)Perceived/(Mis)Placed Social Agency
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2012
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School of Psychology, Massey University
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Abstract
Within contemporary life, women struggle within
discourses of stay-at-home mothering and working
mother in terms of the detriment to a child’s
development. Although contemporary research
tends to isolate work-life balance as a separate set
of conflicting discourses to study, I suggest that
this isolation is misleading. Work-life balance
encompasses every aspect of a woman’s speaking
being or conscious home, social, caring and
working experiences. Considering work-life as allencompassing
allows for interesting interpretations
when framing women’s work-life experiences
within the confines of a language that seeks to
dissect them into discrete parts. Furthermore,
conflict surrounding work and life is not new and
provide a cornerstone of traditional psychoanalytic
theories of human development. Within this
paper, I consider contemporary discourses of
work-life balance, within the context of Riviere’s
psychoanalytical concept of masquerade and
Lacanian psychoanalysis that rereads Freud’s
original works as a theory of discourse.
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Keywords
Masquerade, Psychoanalysis, Worklife balance, Lacan, Soler