![]() ![]() ![]() Subsequently, I explore the alignment between Suits’ views on gameplay and psychoanalytic accounts of play and pleasure. Specifically, I first compare Suits’ analysis of unconscious gameplay to psychoanalytic concepts of repression and neurosis. ![]() In this paper, I explain the psychoanalytical roots of Suits’ theory of games and explore how much of his theory of games is indebted to psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, sport philosophers have largely overlooked the importance of psychoanalysis in Suits’ examinations of games and, more broadly speaking, rarely attempted to apply psychoanalytical concepts to their analyses of sport. Brown, significantly shaped Bernard Suits’ pioneering thoughts on games. Remarkably, psychoanalytical notions, especially those of Eric Berne and Norman O. However, although sport philosophy qualifies as one such discipline, scholars in this field have given little to no attention to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical theorists. Take the examples of political philosophy, race theory, and feminist thought, among many others. ![]() Since Sigmund Freud developed and popularized psychoanalysis, this psychological theory has significantly influenced contemporary thinking, particularly in philosophical disciplines focused on understanding human behavior and addressing social problems. ![]()
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