Abstract
While Eros in all his vicissitudes has been analysed, reinvented and applied, Thanatos1 has held an important but overlooked place in the canon of psychoanalytic literature. This research note draws on Freudian theoretical notions of death and applies these to organizational demise. Psychoanalytic writing on death is examined and the theory themed through aspects of: loss vs. desire; the impossibility of death; and nothingness vs. destruction and working through death. This is then considered as a means to better understand organizational collapse. We argue that Freudian notions of death provide a useful lens through which to view organizational mortality.
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