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This guy is actually serious. At first you think he's bullshitting or mocking Freud or something but he's NOT! Haha. We had to read this article for class. Here is a little summary: Football action may be reconstructed as to evoke the primal scene. If the goal line is the hymen and the ball carrier is the phallus while the ball itself is the womb to be delivered in triumph to the earth mother, then a touchdown is a symbolic rape uniting sex and violence in a series of downs in which the underdog (the symbolic son) pushes away the defenses of the favored team (the primitive father) to penetrate the sacred opening of the mother. In golf, convert the club to a phallus, the white ball into a sperm, and the drive itself into an ejaculating orgasm aimed at a hole in one. In sports, one side represents the father, one side the adolescent son, reaching for incestuous control over the primitive mother embodied in the win, the bucket, the touchdown, the hole in one, the homerun.