like a vegetable stand of facts: an experiment in form.

Mothers, Infants, and the Psychoanalytic Study of Ritual, Ross and Ross pg. 31 – 32

Like Turner’s idea of ritual, play has its own time and place.

Mothers, Infants, and the Psychoanalytic Study of Ritual, Ross and Ross

““Into an imperfect world and into the confusion of life [play] brings a temporary, a limited perfection.” Play accomplishes this by fostering the freedom to create images – to use imagination – in the effort to make dreams, fantasies, and ideals briefly real.”

Mothers, Infants, and the Psychoanalytic Study of Ritual, Ross and Ross pg. 31 – 32

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