Desire and Violence in Modern Sport

International Journal of Sport and Health Science Pub Date : 2017-09-05 DOI:10.5432/IJSHS.201636

T. Sakamoto

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Why do we want to win in a sport as strongly as we do? This paper explored this question from the point of view of desire in an attempt to delineate how desire manifests in modern sports, as well as its relevance to brutality. A great many incidents that occur in real life teach us that modern sports involve a great deal of violence. It is equally clear that no violent behaviour will happen in a situation where no competition exists. As we conˆrmed at the outset, competitors are bound to have an essential desire to win in sports competitions. This desire is directed towards an object called victory. According to Girard, the desire to win is anything but autonomous; rather, it exists as the mimicry of another person's desire. When revisiting modern sports from the point of view of desire in this manner, we can see that international megaevents such as the Olympics, the world cups of various sports, etc., propagate our desire to win to a formidable degree. In other words, modern sports are intimately connected with capitalist economies and strengthen triangular desire in a synergistic manner. The strengthened desire lacks an outlet, reaches the hell of reciprocal mediation, and consequently manifests as brutality.

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现代体育运动中的欲望与暴力

为什么我们如此强烈地想要在一项运动中获胜?本文从欲望的角度探讨了这个问题，试图描述欲望如何在现代体育中表现出来，以及它与野蛮的相关性。现实生活中发生的许多事件告诉我们，现代体育运动涉及大量暴力。同样清楚的是，在不存在竞争的情况下，不会发生暴力行为。正如我们一开始所强调的，运动员在体育比赛中必然有一种获胜的基本愿望。这种欲望指向一个叫做胜利的目标。吉拉德认为，对胜利的渴望绝不是自发的;相反，它的存在是对另一个人的欲望的模仿。当以这种方式从欲望的角度重新审视现代体育时，我们可以看到，奥运会、各种体育项目的世界杯等国际大型赛事，在很大程度上传播了我们的胜利欲望。换句话说，现代体育与资本主义经济紧密相连，以协同的方式强化三角欲望。被强化的欲望缺乏出口，到达了相互调解的地狱，结果表现为残暴。

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