Abstract
The interpersonal relationship, referring to the biblical metaphor of Jacob's fight with the angel, appears extremely complex, as it is often a relation oscillating from encounter to clash, fight to embracement, and aggression to faithful abandoning. It has to be managed with an extraordinary respect from the other. Frequently interpersonal interaction cause personal wounds but also generate "blessing", i.e. changes for growth for the involved individuals. Nevertheless the human relationship within the business world (and companies specifically) tends to be simplified and downgraded to a merely opportunistic exchange. This excessive simplification causes in organizations such relations that may produce psychological wounds, i.e. disappointments and frustrations, that the person are not in condition to process, in order to transform these disillusions in opportunities for reflection and personal growth. In practice, the wounds do not become "blessing", i.e. prophecies for an eventual personal development. This paper aims to identify what paths within the social and organizational contexts lead wounds to blessing. One possible answer to this question is the evidence that modern organizations, particularly those in the western world, adopting an economic rationality of opportunistic exchange and very formalized managerial instruments, based on liturgies with a strong orthodoxy, don't seem any longer able to acknowledge and manage adequately the organization's embedded rites. These rites and rituals constitute the fundamental apparatus to maintain the balance, between individuals and collective identity, which would allow the wounded person to experience, process and generate a promise of future from disappointment and defeat.