A01=Chris Oakley
Author_Chris Oakley
Category=JHBS
Category=JMH
Category=SFBC
Culture and Psychoanalysis
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Product details
- ISBN 9781780491820
- Dimensions: 147 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Chris Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice. When not working he spends his time attending football matches all over the world.
