01670nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100004300041245010100084260002700185300003200212520117600244650010201420773002601522210924b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aResch, B., Hoyer, P. and Steyaert, C.   aAffective control in new collaborative work: Communal fantasies of purpose, growth and belonging  aOrganization Studies    a42(5), May, 2021: p.787-809  aWe examine the increasing popularity of collaborative work to understand the consequences of these practices for organizational control. Applying a Lacanian framework, we pay attention to how this (re-)emerging trend of collaborative work is underpinned by affect-laden fantasies of community-driven co-creation. Based on a multi-source study design to explore collaborative work, we identified three interrelated fantasies that arouse passionate attachments to collaborative community involvement: a spiritual fantasy of ‘purpose’, an entrepreneurial fantasy of ‘growth’ and a tribal fantasy of ‘belonging’. To preserve the relevance of Lacan’s thought for the inquiry of distributed, post-heroic and post-hierarchical work practice, we propose the notion of ‘communal Other’. This notion provides insights into the unfolding of control through the fantasmatic desire for wholeness by working in collaborative communities. Conceptually, we theorize how tensions between the paradoxical enjoyment of pleasure and pain – what Lacan called ‘jouissance’ – highlight the central importance of affective control in collaborative work. – Reproduced   aAffective control, Collaborative work, Community, fantasy, Jouissance, Lacan, Paradoxical tension  aOrganization Studies