Pub Date : 2023-12-26DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2295776
Sandra Meeuwsen
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《体育、伦理与哲学》(2023 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2275585
Catherine Ordway, Matt Nichol, Damien Parry, Joanna Wall Tweedie
The discourse inside and outside of sport in Australia and abroad on the participation of transgender women in female sport focuses on the principles of fairness, equity and the safety of competito...
澳大利亚国内外体育界内外关于变性女性参与女性体育运动的讨论主要集中在公平、公正和竞技安全等原则上。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2277280
Francisco Javier López Frías, Christopher C. Yorke
Bernard Suits’ groundbreaking work, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, has profoundly shaped the philosophy of sport. Its sequel, Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure, and the Good Life...
Bernard Suits的开创性著作《Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia》深刻地塑造了体育哲学。它的续作《蚱蜢的回归:游戏、休闲和美好生活》……
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2284923
Eric Anderson, Gary Turner, Jack Hardwicke, Keith D. Parry
This article first summarizes research regarding the relationship between sports that intentionally structure multiple types of brain trauma into their practice, such as rugby and boxing, and the r...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-24DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2281531
Odilon José Roble
This text argues that psychoanalytic philosophy is a valuable tool for the Philosophy of Sport. To situate it within the philosophical tradition, I place Freud’s ideas as an heir to the Philosophy ...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2286284
Jo Morrison
The anti-doping policies of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) aim to promote a level playing field and protect the health of the athlete. Anti-doping policy discourages research using performance...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2280201
Thomas Schramme
In this paper, I discuss the risks of brain injuries in collision and contact sports and make a proposal to address them without limiting the autonomy of athletes. I aim to analyse the circumstances of profound uncertainty that athletes are facing in terms of the long-term impact of brain injuries. My strategy is to circumvent drastic measures in dealing with such risks, such as banning certain sports or changing their nature by introducing constitutive rule changes, and to scaffold individual autonomy instead. I will focus on two aspects. First, I address the choice whether to take up or continue to play a risky sport given the mentioned profound level of ignorance. I argue that we can scaffold autonomy to make rational choices, particularly by enabling the application of heuristics. Second, I discuss performative skills that can help to prevent brain injuries. It is important to consider collision and contact sports as instances of joint action. The performance of others is an important factor in determining the level of risk in such sports. Hence, supporting athlete’s skills to prevent collisions can reduce the risk of brain injury. I conjecture ways to scaffold players’ skills and performance with this aim in mind.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2279153
Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega, Judson Cavalcante Bezerra
ABSTRACTIn this essay, we address the influence of psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the esthesiological body. Our analyses are about the relation of senses and meanings established among the notions of game, sport and ludic, dialoguing with esthesiology and with the pulsional body, based on Freud's psychoanalytic referential, also approached by Merleau-Ponty. Our interlocutor considers that the expression of play in language seeks to situate the body, perception, and desire as primordial sources in the process of signification, presenting a different way of conceiving the problem of ambiguity of the word game, based on a lacunar, indirect, and nascent conception of language. Merleau-Ponty's philosophy beckons to an alternative and possible path in the movement of re-reading the game and the ludic, including the dialogue with Psychoanalysis concerning the relations of the pulsional body with the game and the play in shaping the feeling of existence, and broadening the horizons of the philosophy of sport.KEYWORDS: Playludiclanguagepulsionbody Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Winnicot (Citation1975) distinguishes the transitional object from the internal object in Melanie Klein because the former is not a mental concept, but a possession. ‘The transitional object is never like the internal object, under magical control nor, like the real mother, out of control’ (Winnicot Citation1975, 42).2. Reference to the internalization of object relations in the infant psyche. The good breast becomes a source of security, goodness, gratitude, while the bad breast intensifies anguish, hatred and envy. Melanie Klein in her analytical technique understands that psychic health and the ability to love and repair depend on the integration of these objects, elaborating the ambivalence between love and hate and thus allowing a decrease in anguish and an increase in frustration tolerance and the ability to love, be loved and create bonds (Cintra and Figueiredo Citation2010).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2279151
Jernej Pisk
ABSTRACTFreudian psychoanalysis offers us often neglected but unique and very fruitful possibilities for an original interpretation of sport. In this article we first look at some basic Freudian concepts, such as the role of sexuality, the unconscious and dreams. In doing so, it becomes clear that sport can and should be interpreted in a similar way to Freud’s interpretation of dreams. Just as dreams need to be decoded and interpreted, sport needs to be decoded and interpreted in order to understand it. On this basis, we then build a system for understanding sport that also incorporates the other important concepts of Freud’s psychoanalysis. The concepts of repression, symptom formation and the role of symbols prove to be particularly relevant for understanding sport. Decoding symbols in sport (e.g. scoring a goal) shows us that sport is a derivative of the libido and has an unconscious sexual structure. Unveiling the hidden unconscious sexuality of sport shows us that (male) sport was created for the sake of women, so that men (as winners) could gain a privileged status in female desire. Sport turns out to be a symbolic substitute for the satisfaction of human sexual needs. However, to better understand the competitive nature of sport, one must include the Oedipus and castration complex. It is castration anxiety that drives sporting competition. Victory is symbolically linked to the castration of the opponent. Next we turn to Freud’s concept of transference. It helps us to understand the complexity of the relationship between the athlete and the coach. This has a strong influence on athletic success. When things do not go as planned for an athlete and unexpected injuries occur, Freud’s concept of ‘advantage through illness’ can help us understand the athlete’s ‘escape into injury’.KEYWORDS: Sportdreamssymbolspleasuretransference AcknowledgmentsI am grateful to Sandra Meeuwsen for her encouragement to participate and for her comments on early versions of the paper. I am also deeply indebted to Roman Vodeb for his help and suggestions. Finally, I am very grateful to the reviewers for their careful reading, as their comments helped me a lot to improve the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Our second reference is the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Roman Vodeb and his psychoanalytic interpretation of sport. Vodeb is known for trying to follow the original Freud faithfully, so he is often considered a radical thinker (Kreft Citation2015, 222).2. The link between sexual repression and the rise of sport was recognised as early as the mid-nineteenth century in Victorian England. Organised sport (especially football) went hand in hand with the repression of sexuality, which had an important educational moment (Winner Citation2013, 9). Similarly, Collins wrote in his book How Football Began (Collins Citation2019, 18): ‘Healthy minds were those seen as free of sin and moral weakness, a
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2272443
S.P. Morris, Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet
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