Psychoanalytic Approach to the Syndrome of Workaholism in the Corporate Culture

Given the changing nature of workspace and jobs, it is more important than ever to study what contributes to workaholism and what its implications are. Development of technologies such as smartphones, laptops have given employees potentially unlimited access to their work, and changes in the workplace and environment, such as remote formats, have further blurred the boundaries between work and home. Self-isolation due to the pandemic, in connection with the development of services for remote conferencing, has further contributed to the fact that for many, the border between personal and work has been blurred. It can be assumed that new information technologies will continue to strengthen the spread of dependence on work. Hypothesis: Workaholism and addictive behavior have the same nature and patterns of manifestation. Purpose of the research: to investigate the mechanism of the formation of such a phenomenon as workaholism from a psychoanalytic point of view Theoretical tasks: 1. Explore a historical overview of the problem of workaholism; 2. Consider the symptoms and methods of measuring workaholism; 3. Analyze the corporate culture contibutive to workaholism; 4. To study the psychoanalytic approach to the phenomenon of workaholism; Empirical tasks: 1. Historical preconditions for the formation of a culture of workaholism in China and Japan; 2. Describe and analyze the cases in which the modern corporate culture of workaholism will be demonstrated in companies in the same countries; 3. Describe and analyze cases of "galaosy" and "karoshi" in China and Japan. After conducting both theoretical and empirical research, we can conclude that the hypothesis of the addictive nature of workaholism has been confirmed.