Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores the added value that the application of the conceptual tools of French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), has the potential to bring to psychoanalytic thinking. Drawing on evidence derived from our individual studies, we aim to demonstrate how Bourdieu’s theories can contribute to our understanding of workers’ occupational choices and add to our knowledge of the way organisational cultures combine with personal attributes to either sustain people in their jobs or drive them out. Given we have practice backgrounds informed by psychoanalytic and psychosocial theory and undertook our Professional Doctorates in Social Work at the Tavistock Centre in London, which strongly promotes psychoanalytic ideas, it may seem surprising that we chose to utilise sociological concepts with which we were largely unfamiliar. However, upon studying Bourdieu’s key concepts of habitus, field, capital and practice we recognised their relevance and ability to bring fresh insights to our research findings.
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