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dc.contributor.authorRogerson, Ann
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Mandy
dc.contributor.authorCoombes, Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-16T00:40:12Z
dc.date.available2013-12-16T00:40:12Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.issn2324-1330
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/4964
dc.descriptionThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.en
dc.description.abstractWithin 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.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSchool of Psychology, Massey Universityen
dc.subjectMasqueradeen
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen
dc.subjectWorklife balanceen
dc.subjectLacanen
dc.subjectSoleren
dc.titleContemporary Masquerade: Work-Life Balance and Modern Tragedies of (Mis)Perceived/(Mis)Placed Social Agencyen
dc.typeArticleen


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