the Play of Man
by Karl Groos
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About this eBook
- Author
- Groos, Karl, 1861-1946
- Title
- The Play of Man
- Credits
- Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Adulthood
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58411
- Release Date
- December 4, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PLAY OF MAN
- 2.EDITOR’S PREFACE
- 3.AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.THE SYSTEM OF PLAY — Introduction
- 6.PART I PLAYFUL EXPERIMENTATION — I. Playful Activity of the Sensory Apparatus — 1. Sensations of Contact — 2. Sensations of Temperature — 3. Sensations of Taste — 4. Sensations of Smell — 5. Sensations of Hearing 37 — 6. Sensations of Sight — II. Playful Use of the Motor Apparatus — A. PLAYFUL MOVEMENT OF THE BODILY ORGANS — B. PLAYFUL MOVING OF FOREIGN BODIES — III. Playful Use of the Higher Mental Powers — A. EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE MENTAL POWERS — B. EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE FEELINGS — C. EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE WILL
- 7.PART II THE PLAYFUL EXERCISE OF IMPULSES OF THE SECOND OR SOCIONOMIC 358 ORDER — I. Fighting Play — 1. Direct Physical Fighting Play — 2. Direct Mental Contests — 3. Physical Rivalry — 4. Mental Rivalry — 5. The Destructive Impulse — 6. Teasing 451 — 7. Enjoyment of the Comic — 8. Hunting Play — 9. Witnessing Fights and Fighting Plays. The Tragic — II. Love Play — 1. Natural Courtship Play — 2. Love Play in Art — 3. The Comic of Sex — III. Imitative Plays — 1. Playful Imitation of Simple Movements — 2. Dramatic Imitation in Play — 3. Plastic or Constructive Imitative Play — 4. Inner Imitation — IV. Social Plays
- 8.PART III THE THEORY OF PLAY — 1. The Physiological Standpoint — 2. The Biological Standpoint — 3. The Psychological Standpoint — 4. The Æsthetic Standpoint — 5. The Sociological Standpoint — 6. The Pedagogical Standpoint
- 9.FOOTNOTES:
- 10.INDEX
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