1st Edition
Sport and Psychoanalysis New Pathways into Sport Integrity
Introduction: Sport and Psychoanalysis
Sandra Meeuwsen
1. Destiny of Drives and the Triangular Method: Starting Points for a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Sport
Odilon José Roble
2. Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Genealogy of Sport
Jernej Pisk
3. Sublimation and Drives in Sports: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Yunus Tuncel
4. Hands, Feet, Eyes, and the Object a: A Lacanian Anatomy of Football
Sandra Meeuwsen and Hub Zwart
5. Emersiology in Sport Science: The Unconscious Living Body in the Case of Corporeal Non-Property
Marie Agostinucci, Claire Liné, Erwann Jacquot, Juliette Vincent, Edmna Manis, Aline Paintendre, Mary Schirrer and Bernard Andrieu
6. “Nothing is funnier than suffering”: Sport as a Comic and Perverse Aesthetic Practice
Andy Harvey
7. The Influence of Psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Pulsional Body in the Gaming Experience
Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega and Judson Cavalcante Bezerra
8. Seeking and Confronting Self-Imposed Challenges Set One Free: Suits, Psychoanalysis, and Sport Philosophy
Francisco Javier Lopez Frias
Biography
Sandra Meeuwsen founded ‘Erasmus Center for Sport Integrity & Transition’ (2022–2025) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. She obtained her Master’s degree in Philosophy in 1990. Since 1994, Sandra has been employed in sports policymaking, starting at NL Olympic Committee. In 2020, she doctorated at Philosophy and Moral Sciences at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Currently, Sandra Meeuwsen holds the position of Visiting Professor ‘Sport Ethics and Philosophy of Chinese Football’ at Tongji University, China.
