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.

• Introduction: Sport and Psychoanalysis 1. Destiny of Drives and the Triangular Method: Starting Points for a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Sport 2. Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Genealogy of Sport 3. Sublimation and Drives in Sports: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 4. Hands, Feet, Eyes, and the Object a: A Lacanian Anatomy of Football 5. Emersiology in Sport Science: The Unconscious Living Body in the Case of Corporeal Non-Property 6. “Nothing is funnier than suffering”: Sport as a Comic and Perverse Aesthetic Practice 7. The Influence of Psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Pulsional Body in the Gaming Experience 8. Seeking and Confronting Self-Imposed Challenges Set One Free: Suits, Psychoanalysis, and Sport Philosophy

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.

• Introduction: Sport and Psychoanalysis 1. Destiny of Drives and the Triangular Method: Starting Points for a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Sport 2. Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Genealogy of Sport 3. Sublimation and Drives in Sports: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 4. Hands, Feet, Eyes, and the Object a: A Lacanian Anatomy of Football 5. Emersiology in Sport Science: The Unconscious Living Body in the Case of Corporeal Non-Property 6. “Nothing is funnier than suffering”: Sport as a Comic and Perverse Aesthetic Practice 7. The Influence of Psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Pulsional Body in the Gaming Experience 8. Seeking and Confronting Self-Imposed Challenges Set One Free: Suits, Psychoanalysis, and Sport Philosophy

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.

• Introduction: Sport and Psychoanalysis 1. Destiny of Drives and the Triangular Method: Starting Points for a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Sport 2. Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Genealogy of Sport 3. Sublimation and Drives in Sports: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 4. Hands, Feet, Eyes, and the Object a: A Lacanian Anatomy of Football 5. Emersiology in Sport Science: The Unconscious Living Body in the Case of Corporeal Non-Property 6. “Nothing is funnier than suffering”: Sport as a Comic and Perverse Aesthetic Practice 7. The Influence of Psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Pulsional Body in the Gaming Experience 8. Seeking and Confronting Self-Imposed Challenges Set One Free: Suits, Psychoanalysis, and Sport Philosophy