Play Psychoanalytic Perspectives Survival And Human Development
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415682084
Description: Is play only a children' s activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between ' play' and ' game'? What function does play have during war?Play:Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development explores the importance of play in the life of the individual and in society. Most people associate psychoanalysis with hidden and ' negative' instincts, like sexuality and aggressiveness, very seldom with ' positive urges' like the importance of love and empathy, and almost never with play.