Spatializing the (Im)Proper Subject

The Geographies of Abjection in Sport and Physical Activity Space

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2348940
AutoresCaroline Fusco (0000-0002-4807-4995, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas5-28
Fecha de publicación2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723505278457
OpenAlexW2055307531
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas47

This article considers the interface between the (psychic and material) construction of subjectivity and the geographies of a set of physical education and recreation locker rooms. Using Julia Kristeva's (1982) Powers of Horror: An Essay in Abjection, the author examines the discursive and psychic constructions of subjectivity that take place in locker rooms. Although it is not possible to get inside people's unconscious, nevertheless, the author suggests that there is something going on in locker rooms that sustains the psychic and material construction of the subject. The author illustrates that the production of subjectivity is learned through, and depends on, a process of abjection. She suggests that paying attention to the 'psychogeographies' of subjects and spaces offers a unique way in which to explore how we engage with the fragile boundaries and borders of subjectivity and the interspace(s) of the abject in sport and physical culture

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Political science · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Recreation · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Unconscious mind · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society