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2023-08-03
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Professional association football functions as a fetish which disavows both the foundational loss inherent to subjectivity and more subsidiary forms of symbolic castration produced by contemporary capitalism. This article analyses the various forms of castration and its disavowal inherent to the game and its fandom, and argues that football ritualises and reinforces the ideological illusion of the subject as an active rational agent within an actuality of passivity and loss.
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Geal, R. (2024) Football and fetishism. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 29, pp. 269–279
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. The accepted manuscript may differ from the final published version. For re-use please see Springer Nature's terms and conditions: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal-authors/aam-terms-v1
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1088-0763