4 amazing types of aggression in sport

Often associated with competitiveness sport, either with oneself or with others and, as a rule, institutionalized (federations, clubs), sport is all that physical activity which involves a series of rules or norms to be carried out within a specific space or area (playing field, court, board, table, among others), details the teacher Adriana Ortíz Barraza .

The specialist in psychoanalysis of the Clinic of Assistance of the Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico (SPM) details that in some way, the sports they represent a means to discharge repressed impulses such as anger, frustration or certain unresolved conflicts, which function as a kind of "escape valve" to these impulses.

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However, it is important to note that the aggression it is necessary and even valued in the sports field, since strength is required, desires to overcome the rival, overcome pain or fatigue, impose on the court, etc; The problem arises when sport aggressiveness exceeds its limits and escapes rational control.

The so-called "fair play" (clean play), consists of a sublimation (divert the aggression towards a new end that is accepted socially) and rationalization of these aggressive impulses, in order to be controlled.


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