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Max-out : Archéologie de l'auto-aliénation contemporaine

Dynamiques sociales, scolaires et organisationnelles de l'engagement
Authors: Vivier, Philippe;

Max-out : Archéologie de l'auto-aliénation contemporaine

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V3 – Développements théoriques majeurs : hyperactivation, boucles existentielles, génération émotionnelle par narration compensatoire, architecture addictive de la récompense variable, boucle d’aliénation métrique et formalisation de l’architecture d’ensemble. Cette V3 formalise le Max-out comme un cadre unifiant les principales pathologies extrêmes du rapport au travail en les rattachant à une configuration d’engagement sur-adhésif, socialement valorisé et métriquement organisé, où la valeur de soi se construit dans le travail au point que la contrainte se vit comme liberté. L’ouvrage reconstruit conceptuellement cette architecture et en retrace la genèse dans la continuité école – orientation – entreprise, en montrant comment l’apprentissage précoce du jugement chiffré, de la comparaison permanente et de la conformité évaluative prépare le terrain psychique sur lequel les dispositifs organisationnels contemporains viennent se brancher. À partir de ce cadre, six trajectoires du Max-out sont formalisées, de la stabilisation durable à l’effondrement. Les pathologies contemporaines du travail apparaissent comme des configurations différenciées d’un même processus de capture, articulées aux logiques éducatives, sociales et organisationnelles qui les rendent possibles. Le texte propose ainsi un cadre de référence pour relire quarante ans de travaux sur la souffrance au travail, la santé mentale, les épreuves professionnelles, l’engagement et la « qualité de vie au travail », en déplaçant le centre de gravité vers un régime d’auto-aliénation structurelle qui organise aujourd’hui la manière dont le travail capture, façonne et consomme l’identité.

V3 – Major Theoretical Developments: Hyperactivation, existential loops, emotional generation through compensatory narration, addictive architecture of variable reward, metric alienation loop, and formalization of the overall architecture. This V3 formalizes "Max-out" as a unifying framework for the main extreme pathologies of the relationship to work, linking them to a configuration of hyper-adhesive, socially valued, and metrically organized engagement, where self-worth is constructed within work to the point that constraint is experienced as freedom. The work conceptually reconstructs this architecture and traces its genesis through the school–guidance–corporate continuum. It demonstrates how early conditioning to quantified judgment, permanent comparison, and evaluative conformity prepares the psychic terrain upon which contemporary organizational mechanisms take hold. Based on this framework, six Max-out trajectories are formalized, ranging from sustainable stabilization to collapse. Contemporary work pathologies thus appear as differentiated configurations of a single process of capture, articulated with the educational, social, and organizational logics that make them possible. The text proposes a reference framework to revisit forty years of research on suffering at work, mental health, professional hardships, engagement, and "Quality of Work Life" (QWL), shifting the center of gravity toward a regime of structural self-alienation that today organizes the way work captures, shapes, and consumes identity.

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