As I passed the deserted football pitch I imagined the players and their supporters and I imagined all their passion – the love and hate – the firing range of feeling – and I thought of Freud’s remark:
“It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.”
As I walked on, now accompanied by the ghosts of footballers, the phantoms of a thousand crowds, I thought of the strange delights of camaraderie …
Note: The quote is taken from Sigmund Freud in: ‘Civilisation and its discontents‘, Chapter 5
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