Tag: Benjamin Bernstein
What psychoanalysis can do for sports – and sports for psychoanalysis
In Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears (Lexington Books), editors Jack Black and Joseph S. Reynoso with contributors in various ways explore the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social dimensions underpinning the experience of sport. Our reviewer of this eagerly awaited book is Kutte Jönsson, and perhaps the fact that he is a philosopher rather than psychologist of sport goes some way to explain his satisfaction, nay, enthusiasm over this collection.
