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dc.contributor.authorIntezar, Hannah
dc.contributor.authorSullivan, Paul W.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T11:49:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-17T14:27:02Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T11:49:40Z
dc.date.available2021-11-17T14:27:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-07
dc.identifier.citationIntezar H and Sullivan P (2021) Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis. Culture and Psychology. 28(3): 395–412.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/18636
dc.descriptionyesen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we suggest that our semiotic understanding of embodiment could be expanded to include a socially exalted individual who embodies a symbol. To illustrate this argument, we draw on an ongoing research project that examines fandom rhetoric and debates around the ‘Greatest of all time’ or the GOAT symbol in Tennis. Grounding Bakhtin’s tri-distinctions of identity, I-for-myself, I-for-other, other-for-me, in a Kantian hermeneutic tradition, we perform a theoretically informed analysis of the GOAT debate. Neither of the three components exists in isolation, rather, they interact in a reflexive dialogue which continually shapes and re-shapes individual consciousness and experiences of embodiment. We apply a ‘Romanticism aesthetic activity’ analytical framework to the tri-distinctions of identity, that consists of ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ rhetoric, within which we found genres of ‘myth,’ ‘art,’ and ‘science.’ Each genre functions, through disparate means to exalt or metamorphise an individual (our focus is on Roger Federer) into a cultural symbol, and that the symbolic form of GOAT reflexively organises the emotional field and identities for those fans deeply invested in it. This paper contributes to the current cultural psychological literature on understanding the mediation of people to symbols in a new digital age.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCulture & Psychology
dc.rights© 2021 The Authors. Published by Sage. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.subjectBakhtinen_US
dc.subjectSymbolic formen_US
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.subjectDialogical selfen_US
dc.subjectMetamorphosisen_US
dc.subjectHermeneutic Traditionen_US
dc.titleMetamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennisen_US
dc.status.refereedyesen_US
dc.date.Accepted2021-07-30
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionPublished versionen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X211044990
dc.date.updated2021-10-06T11:49:42Z
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-17T14:29:22Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccessen_US


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