Sex as a Sublimation for Tennis: From the Secret Writings of Freud

by Theodor Saretsky

Normal red-blooded Americans prefer tennis to sex-and Sigmund Freud always knew it. the famous doctor surpressed his findings because of a morbid fear of white shorts, but now his secret papers have been discovered. Complete with case studies, photographs, personal correspondence, and seminal doodles, Sex as a Sublimation for Tennis explains the conclusions Freud hid and reveals man's true basic getting a court in prime time. 43,000 copies in print.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 1985

Reviews

[Roland Casselbrant · Rating 1 out of 5]

To appreciate this book, you not only need to be a fanatical Freud lover and a completely unbearable tennis fan, you also need to have a sense of humor that appreciates the same joke being told over and over again - just rephrased. An infantile approach to body secretions and sex is almost a must to get beyond Chapter 1.

[Peter Schutz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably needed to either be more wacky or more tongue in cheek, instead of just repeating basically the same two or three jokes over and over and over again… but the world does not exist where I rate this piece of art less than five stars ✌🏼

[FOCK OFF · Rating 2 out of 5]

my favourite image comes from this book
🥎🎾🥎

[MZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

i don’t suppose i could have ever come up with the theory that sex is a sublimation for tennis or that the cause of lobbing is a small penis or that a fearful child was afraid of a horse biting into his racket and successfully overcame it to focus more on his actual fear, which is that the horse will bite off what lies in his Netherlands or that the fear of abandonment is ameliorated when a serve is volleyed back on the court. shoutout freud and shoutout satire.

[Dylan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bahahahaha!!!