This paper critically examines and reviews the dominant and mainstream perspectives and literature on whistleblowing and offers a new approach to understanding this complex phenomenon using a psychoanalytical lens. Almost all studies on whistleblowing perceive it as an ethical, moral or altruistic act on the part of the whistleblower and overlook the whistleblower's subjectivity in question. This paper offers an in‐depth review of the literature to explore this and addresses the emergent but nascent discourses on whistleblower's subjectivity, offering an alternative perspective suggesting that not all whistleblowers may be prompted by moral compulsion or desire to speak truth to power. It suggests that underlying emotional and unconscious dynamics such as narcissism, in particular narcissistic rage, disillusionment and a sense of betrayal, can be possible factors in deciding to ‘blow the whistle’. Furthermore, the concept of psychological defences and defence mechanisms is discussed in depth and is used to illustrate the dynamics above. In doing so, this paper draws upon extant literatures to challenge and shift existing paradigms on normative whistleblowing literature, offering novel and significant theoretical contributions and an alternative strategic platform for new directions in research and practice.

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叛国还是理性？举报的心理分析见解

本文对检举的主流和主流观点和文献进行了严格的审查和审查，并提供了一种新的方法来使用心理分析镜头来理解这一复杂现象。几乎所有有关举报的研究都将举报行为视为举报人的道德，道德或无私行为，却忽略了举报人的主观性。本文对文献进行了深入的综述，以探索这一点，并探讨了有关举报人主观性的新兴但新生的论述，并提出了另一种观点，表明并非所有举报人可能都是出于道德强迫或想对权力讲真话而引起的。它暗示了潜在的情感和潜意识动力，例如自恋，特别是自恋的愤怒，幻灭和背叛感，可能是决定“吹口哨”的可能因素。此外，对心理防御和防御机制的概念进行了深入讨论，并用于说明上述动态。在此过程中，本文利用现有文献对规范性举报文学的现有范式进行挑战和转变，为新颖的，有意义的理论贡献和新的研究和实践方向提供了替代性战略平台。