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Sport and Psychoanalysis
What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
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Sport and Psychoanalysis
What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
About this book
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social dimensions underpinning the experience of sport. By challenging the idea that sport offers an "escape" from reality—a realm separate to the politics of everyday life—each chapter critically considers the unconscious desires, fantasies, and fears that underpin the sporting spectacle for both participants and spectators. Indeed, beyond simply applying psychoanalysis to sport, this book proposes how sport can be used to pose questions to psychoanalysis, thus using sport as a medium to elucidate key psychoanalytic ideas and concepts. This volume addresses a diverse range of theorists, including Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Lou Andreas-Salome´, Norman O. Brown, and Frantz Fanon, and applies them across a variety of topics and sports, including NFL coaching, Manny Pacquiao, play, football, basketball, baseball, poker, and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, therefore providing a unique understanding of the cultural, social, and psychic significance of sports. A timely and relevant collection, this book will appeal to scholars and practitioners interested in understanding sport from both the cultural and clinical application of psychoanalytic theory as well as academics and practitioners in sport studies, psychology, sociology, education, and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Sport: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
- Part I: The Athletic Body
- Chapter 1: Sport and the Erotic
- Chapter 2: The Athletic Body: A Lacanian Perspective
- Part II: Coaching
- Chapter 3: The Racial Melancholia of Aspiring Black NFL Head Coaches
- Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis, Mental Coaching, and Sports
- Part III: Fandom
- Chapter 5: Are We the Champions? Sports Fandom through the Lens of Pretend Play and Intersubjectivity
- Chapter 6: The Psychoanalysis of Basketball
- Chapter 7: Cheering on Solid Ground: Plotting a Developmental Arc toward Ethical Fandom
- Part IV: Identity
- Chapter 8: To Know of Manny Pacquiao: The Limits of Identity under Empire
- Chapter 9: Homosexual Football: Perspectives from Lou Andreas-Salomé
- Part V: Play
- Chapter 10: Turning Two: Psychoanalysis and the Poetics of Pivoting; Or, Initial Thoughts for a Topology
- Chapter 11: Becoming-ball: A Schizo-soma Ball Movement
- Chapter 12: Play, Sport, and the Creativity of Sublimation: Understanding the Importance of Unimportant Activities
- About the Editors and Contributors