ABSTRACT
Suicide at places of work was something that did take place in the past, but these acts belonged exclusively to the world of agriculture and farming, where home and workplace were one and the same. Suicide is always a challenge to any nosologic classification. But in the case of workplace suicide, more often than not psychoanalysts are dealing with an acute episode in the advancement of depression. The suicides reveal a turning-point in the relationship between servitude and domination in the company. Strategic conviviality meshes work and outside-work entirely, by means of a material and moral dependence vis-a-vis the company, the purveyor of employment and a comfortable standard of living. In such a way, strategic conviviality might ultimately be the modern form of a “condition”: the executive condition, now reframed as a new form of servitude in which the executive’s entire life as well as those of his or her family are drawn into the neo-liberal company.
