KOPANAKIS, A. R. Chuteiras novas para pés descalços: imaginário coletivo de jovens futebolistas [New Soccer cleats in barefoot: the collective imaginary of junior athletes]. 215p. Doctoral Thesis – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Centro de Ciências da Vida, Programa de Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Campinas (SP), 2022.
Available on: http://repositorio.sis.puc-campinas.edu.br/handle/123456789/16584
Abstract: This study aims to investigate the collective imaginary of young boys, in the process of soccer training, concerning the life of a soccer player. The research is justified in producing pertinent knowledge to provide psychological support to those who, as part of the male population from a subalternized class, in transition to adulthood, are involved in soccer training categories. Adopting the perspective of concrete psychoanalytic psychology, two types of research materials were considered: 1) 22 story-drawings (through The Thematic Drawing-and-Story Procedure) produced during a group support session and 2) a transference narrative developed by the researcher. Initially, both materials were considered in the light of the psychoanalytic method, in order to interpretatively produce intersubjective emotional or unconscious fields of meaning. In the second phase, the same materials were considered from a dialectically informed critical reading of social reality. As a whole, the methodological work enabled the interpretative production of four affective-emotional fields of meaning, called “Dream work,” “Overcoming poverty,” “Individual Effort as the Key to Success,” and “A Man’s Thing,” and four environmental fields called “Meritocratic Hoax,” “Work as Human Effort,” “Cisheteropatriarchal Capitalism,” and “Socio-Human Ontological Sphere.” The general scenario indicates that the participants’ imaginary contains both the recognition of the transformative potential inherent to human work, which is aligned with the pursuit of achieving one’s dreams, while also being contaminated by meritocratic and cisheteropatriarchal pretenses, which contribute to the generation of dissociations and social suffering.