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Olivier Duris, psychologist: “It is essential to hear that our life is neither work nor business”

2022-04-04T03:49:20.811Z


While some develop an addiction to the LinkedIn professional network, the psychologist sees in it an alienation from work and, above all, from a certain, imposed idea of ​​success.


Miss Figaro.

How do you think people become addicted to a professional network?


Olivier Duris

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– This seems to me mainly linked to a form of guilt vis-à-vis work.

All social network users know how to name what they find there: humor on TikTok, learning on LinkedIn, etc.

In reality, we use each other in the same way: as an outlet that we all need.

Only, LinkedIn, by keeping us in the professional context, allows us to feel guilty.

What do we blame ourselves for?


Specifically, to take time for yourself.

You can blame yourself if you think you have to devote your life to your job or if you rely on your professional image to occupy a certain social position, for example.

Previously, capitalism offered us to earn our living in order to consume.

The situation has changed: our desire, as a worker, is no longer only turned towards ourselves, but also towards our company.

We invest more, we work overtime, not for the money, but because we have to, for the good of our business.

Society gives a primordial place to the worker and, even more, to the entrepreneur, the one who creates, considered the most useful of all.

In this context, not working gives the feeling of procrastinating… But we need it!

Boredom is paramount

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Yes, and the exchanges held on LinkedIn resemble coffee machine discussions: we pay attention to what we say, of course, but we always put a little we.

On LinkedIn, you post your name, your CV, your background, you try to be seen, but you hide certain things to work on your social place.

It comes down to building what pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott called a "false self."

Remember this argument, hammered at teenagers a few years ago: "Be careful not to post anything on Facebook that could harm you in a job interview."

LinkedIn reproduces exactly this issue.

In favor of the pandemic, has this replaced part of our social life?


The phenomenon is older.

It depends on a paradigm of society, and philosophers already announced it fifty years ago.

But it has indeed accelerated with confinements and teleworking.

Professional life, already pervasive before the pandemic, has engulfed the domestic space, further expanding the place it occupies there and crossing a new boundary.

It is essential to hear that our life is neither work nor business

Olivier Duris

How do you put work back in its place?


This implies freeing oneself from a form of alienation.

It is essential to understand that our life is neither work nor business and that, behind each worker, hides a subject, which needs time for itself.

At the very least, we need to be aware of this.

In a world that aspires to ever more work and growth, a conscious and chosen alienation is already a huge step forward.

On this ground, the young generation carries new reflections, counter-discourses.

Where to start ?


By detaching oneself from the professional role that one holds in order to listen to oneself more.

No matter how well we get along with our colleagues or find authenticity on LinkedIn, the speeches there are necessarily social hypocrisy.

I affirm this without the shadow of a judgement: that's how it is, we can't say everything.

Hence the paramount importance of breaking away from LinkedIn and social networks in general.

And to keep in mind that these are above all companies, determined to do everything so that we do not disconnect.

Source: lefigaro

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