Tag: “Sport and Psychoanalysis”
Call for Papers | “Aggression in Sport: Psychoanalytic Investigations”, Special Issue of Sport and Psychoanalysis, Cogent Social Sciences | Call ends January 12, 2026
Psychoanalysis, with its attention to unconscious desire, psychic conflict, and the role of fantasy, provides a unique lens through which to interrogate the presence and function of aggression in sporting life. This special issue will advance psychoanalytic investigations of aggression in sport by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship across clinical theory, cultural analysis, and critical sport studies. In doing so, it seeks to explore the psychic, social, and symbolic dimensions of aggression as they relate to athletes, spectators, institutions, and the media.
Open Call of Submissions | “Sport and Psychoanalysis”, a new section of the Cogent Social Sciences journal (Routledge) dedicated to exploring the intersections between sport and psychoanalysis
At first glance, Sport and Psychoanalysis may appear worlds apart: sport is associated with physicality, competition, and entertainment, while psychoanalysis explores the unconscious, desire, and the contradictions that structure subjectivity. Yet, it is precisely this apparent disparity that makes their relationship so compelling. By engaging with the psychic, cultural, and social dimensions of sport, the journal offers a critical space for examining how sport both reflects and unsettles the psychic and social structures that shape our lives.
