Competition and Postural Confrontation in Life, Sports, and Psychoanalytic Treatment—Illustrated Clinically and In Relation to Vladimir Nabokov

Abstract

The importance of the emotions that can be evoked by (face-to-face and face-to-back) postural and visual contrapositions in life and in psychoanalysis—and specifically in relation to sports and games—is delineated and illustrated in clinical and literary material. The latter features aspects of the life and works of the writer Vladimir Nabokov.