

To many, this is a depressing prognosis, an image of civilization replaced by its machines. Soon there will be little left for us to do but sit back and enjoy the ride. The homes of the future will anticipate our wants and needs and provide all the entertainment, food, and distraction we could ever desire.

The hospitals of the future will have fewer doctors, depending instead on cloud-based AI to diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The factories of the future will work in the dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. Automating technologies threaten to usher in a future of To conclude, I examine the therapeutic and emancipatory character of Suits’ proposal, drawing parallels between his philosophical corpus and critical theorists whose critical analyses of modern society are heavily indebted to Freud. Subsequently, I explore the alignment between Suits’ views on gameplay and psychoanalytic accounts of play and pleasure. Specifically, I first compare Suits’ analysis of unconscious gameplay to psychoanalytic concepts of repression and neurosis.
In this paper, I explain the psychoanalytical roots of Suits’ theory of games and explore how much of his theory of games is indebted to psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, sport philosophers have largely overlooked the importance of psychoanalysis in Suits’ examinations of games and, more broadly speaking, rarely attempted to apply psychoanalytical concepts to their analyses of sport. Brown, significantly shaped Bernard Suits’ pioneering thoughts on games. Remarkably, psychoanalytical notions, especially those of Eric Berne and Norman O. However, although sport philosophy qualifies as one such discipline, scholars in this field have given little to no attention to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical theorists. Take the examples of political philosophy, race theory, and feminist thought, among many others. Since Sigmund Freud developed and popularized psychoanalysis, this psychological theory has significantly influenced contemporary thinking, particularly in philosophical disciplines focused on understanding human behavior and addressing social problems.
