CONTENTS

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Editor’s Preface[iii]
Author’s Preface[v]
The System of Play—Introduction[1]
PART I
PLAYFUL EXPERIMENTATION
I. Playful Activity of the Sensory Apparatus[7]
1. Sensations of contact[7]
2. Sensations of temperature[14]
3. Sensations of taste[14]
4. Sensations of smell[16]
5. Sensations of hearing[18]
(a) Receptive sound-play[19]
(b) Productive sound-play[31]
6. Sensations of sight[48]
(a) Sensations of brightness[50]
(b) The perception of colour[54]
(c) Perception of form[60]
(d) Perception of movement[67]
II. Playful Use of the Motor Apparatus[74]
A. Playful movement of the bodily organs[75]
B. Playful movement of foreign bodies[95]
1. Hustling things about[95]
2. Destructive (analytic) movement-play[97]
3. Constructive (synthetic) movement-play[99]
4. Playful exercise of endurance[101]
5. Throwing plays[103]
(a) Simple throwing[105]
(b) Throwing with the help of a stroke or blow[107]
(c) Rolling, spinning, shoving, and skipping foreign bodies[110]
(d) Throwing at a mark[114]
6. Catching[118]
III. Playful Use of the Higher Mental Powers[121]
A. Experimentation with the mental powers[122]
1. Memory[122]
(a) Recognition[122]
(b) Reflective memory[128]
2. Imagination[131]
(a) Playful illusion[131]
(b) Playful transformation of the memory-content[135]
3. Attention[144]
4. Reason[152]
B. Experimentation with the feelings[158]
1. Physical pain[159]
2. Mental suffering[160]
3. Surprise[163]
4. Fear[166]
C. Experimentation with the will[169]
PART II
THE PLAYFUL EXERCISE OF IMPULSES OF THE SECOND OR SOCIONOMIC ORDER
I. Fighting Play[173]
1. Direct physical fighting play[174]
2. Direct mental contests[186]
3. Physical rivalry[197]
4. Mental rivalry[201]
5. The destructive impulse[217]
6. Teasing[220]
7. Enjoyment of the comic[232]
8. Hunting play[237]
9. Witnessing fights end fighting plays. The tragic[244]
II. Love Play[252]
1. Natural courtship play[254]
2. Love play in art[268]
3. Sex in the comic[278]
III. Imitative Play 280
1. Playful imitation of simple movements[291]
(a) Optical percepts[291]
(b) Playful imitation of acoustic percepts[294]
2. Dramatic imitation in play[300]
3. Plastic or constructive imitative play[313]
4. Inner imitation[322]
IV. Social Play[334]
PART III
THE THEORY Of PLAY
1. The physiological standpoint[361]
2. The biological standpoint[369]
3. The psychological standpoint[379]
4. The æsthetic standpoint[389]
5. The sociological standpoint[395]
6. The pedagogical standpoint[398]
Index[407]

THE PLAY OF MAN