Sex and gender in psychology are long-established topics for research and theorizing, while psychoanalytic theory is becoming increasingly influential in our understanding of organizations. Psychoanalytical theory has, since its beginning, been concerned with questions of sex, sexuality, and gender, while gender studies have drawn widely upon psychoanalytical theories. There has as yet been little attempt to bring together these mutually informative disciplines to the development of a critical understanding of organizations. This study aims to provide a forum for the exploration of psychoanalytically-informed theories of gender, and gender-informed psychoanalytical theories, and what these may tell us about organizations, and what is the position of gaze here or what is the relationship between them. The question of women is the dominating motive in Hawthorne’s works. Perceiving changes in women’s lives and their growing social status, he depicts women as internally complex who, on the one hand, belong to the Puritan, male-dominated tradition, and on the other hand to the Transcendental, feminist tradition. While the former are weak and dependent on men in a patriarchal society, the latter are strong, self-reliant, and self-defining.
