Abstract

SECOTTE, Guilherme  and  DIONISIO, Gustavo Henrique. The pleasure in combat sport modalities: the death drive and the spectator’s experience. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.2, pp.458-475. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n2p458-475.

The present article makes a brief analysis of the history of combat sports in order to elucidate some of their main characteristics in the contemporary capitalist society, keeping in mind that the cultural industry deals with sport competitions as trading products. That said, the reflection focus on a preliminary study approaching the viewer’s pleasure when watching the combat shows. Within this context, we propose the concept of "esthetic" fights, considering them as those that can provide the highest level of pleasure to the watcher. For this objective, we make use of the psychoanalytic theory, highlighting the Freudian metapsychology taking into consideration the pleasure and the death drive, to describe that through identification and projection mechanisms the spectators can indirectly express their aggression, while watching combat sports events.

Keywords : Viewer; Combat sports; Pleasure; Psychoanalysis; Death drive.

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