Football Delirium

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AvChris Oakley

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide preoccupation with football. Does anybody have the answer? This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life. For the paradox is that this very madness is simultaneously therapeutic: football as an insistent provocation, repeatedly re-inaugurating the reverie or drift, disrupted by those moments of the most intense fracture, moments of the autistic stare.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-31
Mått:147 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt:235 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781780491820

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Chris Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice. When not working he spends his time attending football matches all over the world.

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'Football Delirium is not 'applied' psychoanalysis, not a book that takes a privileged position in relation to its subject, but a set of wonderfully subtle and free-wheeling interwoven stories about psychoanalysis and football, and what they might have to say to each other. A book for, and about fans, and a book consistently intriguing for those who care little for either psychoanalysis or football, or indeed fans - because it is about so much more than its subject, because its enthusiasms are so contagious - Football Delirium has strange unsettling things to say about how the things that matter to us always matter too much, about the commitments we can't stop ourselves making, about how our passions are always a passion to forget ourselves. After Football Delirium joining in will never look quite the same.' - Adam Philips

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction -- Parklife -- Trenchmouth -- The Tableau Vivant -- Living the Dream -- Sex in the Stadium -- Losing: My Religion -- Football is Therapy -- Conclusion