Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears

Editor : Jack Black, Editor : Joseph S. Reynoso

Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears

Book Details

  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 282
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Category 2 :
    Clinical Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 97791
  • ISBN 13 : 9781666938425
  • ISBN 10 : 1666938424

Table of Contents


Introduction: Sport: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Jack Black and Joseph S. Reynoso

Part I: The Athletic Body
1. Sport and the Erotic
David W. McIvor

2. The Athletic Body: A Lacanian Perspective
Hub Zwart

Part II: Coaching
3. The Racial Melancholia of Aspiring Black NFL Head Coaches
Bradley A. Thomas

4. Psychoanalysis, Mental Coaching, and Sports
Robert Samuels

Part III: Fandom
5. Are we the champions? Sports Fandom through the Lens of Pretend Play and Intersubjectivity
Benjamin Bernstein

6. The Psychoanalysis of Basketball
David Cushman

7. Cheering on Solid Ground: Plotting a Developmental Arc toward ethical Fandom
Monique S. Bowen

Part IV: Identity
8. To Know of Manny Pacquiao: The Limits of Identity under Empire Joseph S. Reynoso

9. Homosexual Football: Perspectives from Lou Andreas-Salomé
Rayyan Dabbous

Part V: Play
10. Turning Two: Psychoanalysis and the Poetics of Pivoting; Or, Initial Thoughts for a Topology
Patrick Scanlon

11. Becoming-ball: A Schizo-soma Ball Movement
Shani Samai-Moskovich

12. Play, Sport, and the Creativity of Sublimation: Understanding the Importance of Unimportant Activities
Jack Black

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