The thinkers of the Frankfurt School proposed their own interpretation of sport in the light of their own Post-Marxist education and aware of the discoveries of psychoanalysis. Besides the analogy between sport and work, an abused metaphor, sport practice was interpreted as an expression of aggression to the point of self-harm, or as an expression of the search for pleasure. In the Seventies of the last century, Brohm spoke out for a new culture of the body that could return to the subject all its rights: aesthetic, playful, erotic and intellectual. The possibility of making one’s body an expressive and experiential instrument restored cultural dignity also to the sport
The Frankfurt School and the Neo-Marxist Theory of the Body and Sport
Gabriella de Mita
2024-01-01
Abstract
The thinkers of the Frankfurt School proposed their own interpretation of sport in the light of their own Post-Marxist education and aware of the discoveries of psychoanalysis. Besides the analogy between sport and work, an abused metaphor, sport practice was interpreted as an expression of aggression to the point of self-harm, or as an expression of the search for pleasure. In the Seventies of the last century, Brohm spoke out for a new culture of the body that could return to the subject all its rights: aesthetic, playful, erotic and intellectual. The possibility of making one’s body an expressive and experiential instrument restored cultural dignity also to the sportI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
