Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-qdpjg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-16T02:54:30.648Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rivalry in Cricket and Beyond: Healthy or Unhealthy?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2013

Michael Brearley
Michael Brearley*
Affiliation:
British Psychoanalytical Society
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

What is the point of sport? For those to whom sport doesn't appeal, it seems futile, pointless. Yet a small child takes pleasure in his or her bodily capacities and adroitness. Gradually the child achieves a measure of physical coordination and mastery. Walking, jumping, dancing, catching, kicking, hitting, climbing, being in water, using an implement as a bat or racquet – all these offer a sense of achievement and satisfaction. Sport it seems to me is an extension of such activities.

Type
Papers
Information
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 73: Philosophy and Sport , October 2013 , pp. 159 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

A version of this paper was printed in The Point, 2010.

References

Bion, W.R. (1961). Experiences in Groups (Tavistock: London).Google Scholar
Davids, F. (1996). ‘Frantz Fanon: the Struggle for Inner Freedom’ in Free Associations, Vol 6: 205–234. (London).Google Scholar
James, CLR. (1963). Beyond a Boundary, (Stanley Paul: London).Google Scholar
Seecharan, C. (2006). Muscular Learning: Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies at the End of the 19th Century, (Randle: Kingston).Google Scholar
Smith, E. (2008). What Sport Tells us about Life, (Viking: New York).Google Scholar
Winnicott, D.W. (1969/1971) ‘The Use of an Object’, in Playing and Reality, (Tavistock: London).Google Scholar