In a moment in our history beset with grave doubts, Erik H. Erickson inquires into the nature and structure of the shared visions which invigorate some eras and seemed so fatefully lacking in others. He illustrates the human propensity for play and vision, from the toy world of childhood to the dream life of adults, and from the artist's imagination to the scientist's reason. Finally, he enlarges on the origins and structure of one shared vision of universal significance, namely, the American Dream. Such a worldview, he ...
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In a moment in our history beset with grave doubts, Erik H. Erickson inquires into the nature and structure of the shared visions which invigorate some eras and seemed so fatefully lacking in others. He illustrates the human propensity for play and vision, from the toy world of childhood to the dream life of adults, and from the artist's imagination to the scientist's reason. Finally, he enlarges on the origins and structure of one shared vision of universal significance, namely, the American Dream. Such a worldview, he concludes, consists of both vision and counter vision (political and religious, economic and technological, artistic and scientific) which vie with each other to give a coherent meaning to shared realities and to liberate individual and communal energy.
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Textual tables. Minor rubbing. Some top page-edge soil. VG., duatwrapper. 21x13cm, 182 pp., Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Contents: Play and Vision: Introduction: From Child's Play to Politics? ; The Toy Stage; Seeing Is Hoping; Play's End; Life Cycle and Ritualization: Areanas of Interplay; Speciation and Ritualization; Ritualization in Everyday Life: Infancy and the Numinous; Childrenhood and the Judicious; Play Age and the Dramatic; School Age and the Formal; Adolescence and the Ideal; Adulthood and Ritual Sanction; Re-Ritualization; Shared Visions: Visions on the Wall; Einstein's Puzzles; A National Dream; Shared Nightmares; Visions and Countervision. Play--Psychological aspects. Subject: and government.
