Essay On Freud And Sports

Entry #3: Freud For this entry, I wanted to focus on one particular movement that has grown from the Barstool Sports universe. This movement revolves around a phrase that has been embraced by the bloggers and stoolies alike: “Saturdays are for the Boys”. This phrase was coined after a tweet from one of the bloggers for Barstool. The blogger heard this yelled by an old man in a crowded bar. He tweeted it and thought nothing of it. The next morning, the movement had begun. After several months, “Saturdays are for the Boys” has become a rallying cry for young males to embrace Saturday as their day. Thousands of videos have been posted on social media of young guys engaging in all sorts of behaviors that revolve around partying with “the boys” on Saturday. Celebrities and dignitaries of all types have …show more content…
SAFTB has truly become bigger than Barstool Sports. For Freud, I think the most interesting aspect of this movement would be the gendered language, and the motivation behind that specific language. Concerning religion’s origin in human psychology, Freud writes, “Religion would thus be the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity; like the obsessional neuroses of children, it arose out of the Oedipus complex, out of relation to the father” (Freud 87). In this sense, Freud sees religion as an illusion that arose from humanity’s need to make up for the shortcomings of man. Regarding the “Saturday’s are for the Boys” movement, Freud would be interested in the function and motivation of the movement. Why do men think that they need a day all to themselves? Do men feel oppressed by women? Freud’s theory may be able to illuminate the function of SAFTB. The SAFTB movement is religious because it is a