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is (whether sexual or political play) a more effective political act than over political resistance insofar as power, when directly contested, will just shuffle a bit and end up more stable and stratified than ever.

Yet while Foucault writes that power 'follows' agency, he ends up implying that power will just shuffle a bit when it is directly contested and end up more stable and stratified than ever. In that case, 'play, whether sexual or overtly political, challenges society's rules on a deeper and less predictable level, opening up greater possibilities of change' (Fillingham, 151).

is a basic form of human activity, and its recognition is basic to an understanding of both language and the self.

For Lacan play is a basic form of human activity, and its recognition is basic to an understanding of both language and the self.

is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. Alfred Adler

is a domain in which the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behavior.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour... in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies... it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level. Lev S. Vygotsky

is a domain in which the greatest achievements are possible, achievements that tomorrow will become a child's basic level of real action.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. Lev S. Vygotsky

is a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary' life as being 'not serious', but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly.

a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary' life as being 'not serious', but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly (p.13)

is a kind of training, whereby one day the young person find that the games they have been playing are not games any longer, but the real thing, for they have become adults. It happens so gradually that they hardly notice the change at first.

For children, life is one long frolic interspersed with a healthy sprinkle of spankings and slappings. Sometimes these seem unduly severe, but it is all part of their training. And one day they find that the games they have been playing are not games any longer, but the real thing, for they have become adults. Their hunting is now real hunting... their tree climbing is in earnest search of inaccessible honey... their acrobatics on the swings are repeated almost daily, in other forms, in the pursuit of elusive game, or in avoiding the malicious forest buffalo. It happens so gradually that they hardly notice the change at first, for even when they are proud and famous hunters their life is still full of fun and laughter (Turnbull 'forest people' : 130)

is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.

A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that' Where the characters seem to come to a pause. . . where they seem to want to stop rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music. Edward Albee

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