The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

INDEX

• Alix, observation of animals, [123].
• Allen, Grant, on beauty, [269].
• Allin, play with physical pain, [159];
  • teasing, [227];
  • the comic, [280];
  • imitation of animals, [203].
• Altum, on sexual selection, [265];
  • nursing play, [310].
• Amaranthes, swinging, [71];
  • trials of patience, [102].
• Andree, drumming, [46];
  • recognising pictures, [125];
  • wagering, [192];
  • gambling, [210];
  • indecent drawings, [277].
• Anstruther-Thomson, inner imitation, [328], [331].
• Arabians, wagering, [208].
• Aristotle, catharsis, [163].
• Astragalus, [209].
• Autenrieth, experimental play, [96].
  
• Bain, imitation, [285].
• Baldwin, repetition, [6];
  • circular reaction, [34];
  • persistent imitation, [39];
  • righthandedness, [76];
  • recognition, [122];
  • imagination, [136];
  • imitation, [282]–291, [305]–321;
  • nursing play, [311];
  • self-exhibition, [348];
  • mass suggestion, [367];
  • organic selection, [372];
  • kinds of play, [396].
  • See also the Editor’s Preface.
• Bashkirtseff, the luxury of grief, [161].
• Bastian, speech practice, [40];
  • kite-flying, [97];
  • throwing at a mark, [114];
  • gaming, [208];
  • tensing, [230];
  • hide-and-seek, [243].
• Beauregard, Egyptian caricature, [227].
• Berlepsch, throwing play, [106];
  • ring fighting, [178].
• Biederman, repetition in poetry, [367].
• Boas, figures in skating, [103].
• Böhme, melodies of children’s songs, [230];
  • sound imitation, [298].
• Brehm, teasing, [280].
• Bridgman, movement play, [76].
• Bücher, work and rhythm, [25];
  • songs of primitive peoples, [35];
  • origin of instruments, [46].
• Büttikofer, plays of women, [192].
  
• Caine, oracles, [207].
• Chamberlain, jumping, [85].
• Chinese, effect of music, [30];
  • games, [208];
  • pitching quoits, [210].
• Colozza, hearing ploys, [48];
  • mental contests, [201];
  • social plays, [335];
  • dangers of the imagination, [406].
• Compayré, play with taste, [9];
  • kissing, [12];
  • voice practice, [31];
  • constructive play, [100];
  • playful lying, [142];
  • play with the reasoning powers, [154];
  • teasing, [228].
• Couturat, imitatation and æsthetic satisfaction, [328].
• Curtmann, social influence, [335].
  
• Darwin, art and sexual selection, [18]–24;
  • observation of movement, [164];
  • the comic, [297].
• Daudet, playful lying, [142].
• Dickens, imagination, [138].
• Dodge, the comic, [279].
• Du Bos, intensive stimuli, [163], [383].
  
• Eckstein, fighting play, [190].
• Edler, play with taste, [12];
  • hearing play, [24].
• Ellendorf, sight play, [51].
• Erdmann, gaming, [214].
• Eskimos, ornamentation, [58];
  • figure-skating, [119].
• Eyre, Australian dance, [73].
  
• Fedde, contest in Faust, [179].
• Fénelon, play and judgment, [130].
• Feuerbach, imagination, [158].
• Fewkes, dolls and idols, [312].
• Finsch, endurance plays, [102].
• Fischart, destructive play, [98];
  • ball play, [109];
  • throwing, [114].
• Fischer, wit, [158];
  • on Schopenhauer, [162].
• Flashar, social influence, [335].
• Forbes, football, [109];
  • goal plays, [114].
• Fouquières, stloppus, [34];
  • ancient drums, [46];
  • Athenian feast, [93];
  • throwing play, [107];
  • the Gordian knot, [210];
  • teasing, [222]–224;
  • hide-and-seek, [243].
• Fritsch, love play, [259].
• Froebel, learning to walk, [82];
  • kindergarten, [402].
    
• G. Marie, touch sensations, [8];
  • taste, [15];
  • hearing play, [22];
  • poetic efforts, [35]–39;
  • pleasure in colour, [71];
  • recognition, [125];
  • exercise of reason, [129];
  • speech imitation, [296];
  • dramatic drawing, [318].
• Gildemeister, [345].
• Goethe, chain rhymes, [37];
  • hearing plays, [43];
  • praying to the light, [52];
  • throwing play, [105];
  • illusion, [132];
  • playful lying, [142];
  • the luxury of grief, [165];
  • fighting play, [182].
• Grasberger, divisions of play, [1]–15;
  • play with insects, [85];
  • gymnastic play, [85];
  • hustling things about, [97];
  • ring games, [114];
  • blind-man’s-buff, [128];
  • hunting play, [240].
• Grey, [229].
• Grosse, primitive poetry, [35];
  • instruments, [44];
  • critique of Bücher, [47];
  • display in the dance, [73];
  • rhythm, [89];
  • stories of Eskimos, [142];
  • mental rivalry, [202];
  • derisive songs, [229];
  • primitive pictures, [315];
  • dance feasts, [354].
• Gurney, enjoyment of music in children, [20];
  • hearing play, [23].
• Gutsmuth, throwing plays, [107];
  • teasing, [224].
• Gutzmann, voice practice among children, [31]–33.
• Guyau, pleasure in warmth, [14];
  • in pleasant odours, [17];
  • playful lying, [142];
  • theory of play, [388].
    
• Hall, taste, [8];
  • play with physical pain, [159];
  • cruelty, [233];
  • teasing, [288];
  • the comic, [280];
  • imitation of animals, [203].
• Hanslick, pleasure in music, [27].
• Hartmann, endurance play, [103];
  • rivalry, [182];
  • betting, [206];
  • lottery, [208];
  • apparent and real I, [388].
• Hecker, the comic, [165].
• Hellenes, drumming, [44];
  • gymnastic play, [85];
  • Livingston, [93];
  • hustling things about, [97];
  • board plays, [204];
  • betting, [206].
• Helmholtz, [129].
• Herbart, the child as a plaything, [403].
• Hudson, impulse for contact, [286];
  • mass play by birds, [346];
  • Lamarckian principle, [361].
• Hugo, [17];
  • enjoyment of the grotesque, [167].
    
• Ibsen, J. G. Borkmann, [82];
  • tragedy, [146].
• Indian, [182];
  • games of chance, [208].
    
• Jacobson, Indian child feast, [304].
• James, reverence for light, [52];
  • collective impulse, [100];
  • desire for knowledge, [147];
  • hunting impulse, [240];
  • social play, [352].
• Jean Paul, social play, [396].
• Jodl, sensory impulses, [3];
  • teasing, [222];
  • decapitation, [309].
• Johnson, taste play, [11];
  • hearing play, [34].
• Jouffroy, inner imitation, [328].
  
• Kant, colour perception, [60];
  • the comic, [165].
• Kaufmann, recognition in poetry, [127].
• Keller, pleasure in colour, [72];
  • destructive play, [98];
  • love play, [255].
• Kleist, the luxury of grief, [161].
• Klutschak, skating figures, [103].
• Köhler, the social sense in little children, [335].
• Köstlin, tone, [28].
• Kraepelin, rhyming, [38];
  • sensation in play, [74].
• Kraus, [343].
• Kries, practice of the will, [172].
• Külpe, [365];
  • the reasoning powers, [329].
• Kussmaul, taste in the infant, [14].
  
• Lange, conscious self-deception, [130];
  • value of illusion, 300;
• aim in play, [379].
• Lazarus, struggle with danger and difficulty, [174];
  • card games, [195];
  • recreation theory, [364];
  • rivalry, [190].
• Lee, æsthetic observation, [328].
• Legras, movement play, [78].
• Lenz, climbing impulse, [87].
• Lessing, pleasure in strong excitement, [14];
  • pleasure in learning, [130];
  • effect of the tragic, [163];
  • the task of poetry, [383].
• Lewes, attention, [145].
• Linde, chess games, [193].
• Lindley, logical experimentation, [154].
• Lippert, ecstatic condition, [25].
• Lipps, the comic, [165];
  • charm of forbidden fruit, [287];
  • the Doric column, [323];
  • æsthetic illusion, [388].
• Livingstone, imitative play, [304].
• Lombroso, imagination, [140];
  • impulse to opposition, [187];
  • destructiveness, [218].
• Lotze, [129].
• Lubbock, reduplication, [88].
• Lukens, children’s drawings, [316].
  
• Mantegazza, love play, [266].
• Marcano, caricature, [227].
• Marshall, art instinct, [345].
• Marty, speech and sympathy, [341].
• Meumann, rhythm, [35].
• Mexico, [208].
• Meyer, E. H., teasing, [230].
• Meyer, R. M., refrain, [35], [127].
• Mill, J., imitative impulse, [285].
• Minor, imitation, [127].
• Mörike, touch sensations, [13];
  • sight play, [52].
• Moll, repetition in hypnosis, [367].
• Moller, on play, [399].
• Monroe, comradeship and sex, [356].
• Morgan, Lloyd, organic selection, [294].
• Munkacsy, collective impulse, [101].
  
• Nachtigal, plastic production by children, [320].
• Nansen, sight play, [51];
  • leaping, [85];
  • curiosity, [147].
• Necker de Saussure, destructive impulse, [218];
  • social sense in children, [335].
• Niebuhr, ball play, [113].
• Nietzsche, intoxication and art, [24];
  • tragedy, [252];
  • low ideals, [90].
• Nordenskiold, throwing play, [115].
  
• Parkinson, swinging, [93];
  • throwing play, [107];
  • catching, [119];
  • wagering, [206].
• Perez, touch sensations, [6]–11;
  • smell, [15];
  • hearing, [20], [22], [41];
  • hustling things about, [96];
  • playful lying, [142];
  • curiosity, [157];
  • teasing imitation, [227], [291];
  • imitation of self, [322].
• Petermann, [192];
  • gaming, [209].
• Pfänder, movement and will, [285].
• Pfisterer, social sense in children, [335].
• Pilo, smoking, [17];
  • the comic, [238].
• Plischke, reason play, [191].
• Ploss, hearing play, [41];
  • rocking, [93];
  • throwing, [109];
  • teasing, [225].
• Preyer, touch sensations, [6];
  • hearing play, [41];
  • sensations of brightness, [50];
  • perception of movement, [75];
  • learning to walk, [81];
  • dancing, [89];
  • constructive play, [100];
  • throwing, [103];
  • recognition, [123];
  • attention, [147];
  • imitation, [291].
    
• Rabelais, throwing play, [145];
  • satire, [228].
• Raehlmann, sight play, [48];
  • sounding, [50].
• Raydt, boxing, [180].
• Reischel, prehistoric drums, [45];
  • play and character building, [400].
• Ribot, instinct, [34];
  • gaming, [210];
  • play with physical pain, [160];
  • luxury of grief, [162];
  • the comic, [230];
  • pleasure in the tragic, [248].
• Ricci, plastic art among children, [320].
• Richepin, sympathy between artists, [345].
• Richter, A., [114].
• Richter, W., fisticuff, [180];
  • gaming, [209].
• Rochholz, children’s rhymes, [39];
  • hustling things about, [97];
  • throwing play, [114];
  • finger play, [170];
  • gaming, [208].
• Rötteken, pleasure in strong emotion, [163];
  • poetic enjoyment, [330].
• Romanes, play with temperature sensations, [14], [51];
  • endurance play, [102];
  • throwing, [181];
  • instinct, [372].
• Rousseau, meaning of youth, [121].
• Rudeck, self-exhibition, [263].
• Rückert, riddle contest, [190].
  
• Sand, fear, [166];
  • imaginative play, [406].
• Scaino, football, [108].
• Schaller, chance games, [193]–204;
  • card games, [194];
  • wagering, [213].
• Schellong, hearing play, [43].
• Schiller, dancing, [89];
  • superfluous energy, [339];
  • courage, [392].
• Schliemann, Trojan instruments, [46].
• Schneegan, teasing, [222].
• Schneider, the hunting impulse, [230];
  • Lamarckian principle, [370].
• Scholz, destructive impulse, [220].
• Schopenhauer, effect of rhythm, [25]–28;
  • power and will, [384].
• Schultz, hearing play, [46];
  • fighting play, 186–201;
  • seeking, [244].
• Schuster, [204], [205];
  • gaming, [191]–211.
• Schweinfurth, throwing play, [114].
• Seidel, riddles, [157];
  • animal stories, [205].
• Selenka, singing apes, [19];
  • rhythmical movement, [89].
• Semon, play with taste, [16];
  • hunting play, [238].
• Semper, imitative dancing, [312].
• Shinn, hearing, [21];
  • recognition, [125];
  • imitation, [295];
  • dancing by children, [302];
  • drawing, [314].
• Siebeck, musical enjoyment, [28].
• Sighele, destructive impulse, [220].
• Sigismund, rhythm, [20];
  • sight play, [50];
  • learning to walk, [80];
  • hustling things about, [96];
  • throwing, [104];
  • recognition, [123];
  • teasing, [225];
  • imitation, [294].
• Sikorski, sense of taste, [9];
  • recognition, [123];
  • attention, [145].
• Sittl, teasing, [231].
• Slatin, cruelty, [225].
• Smyth, Brough, [402].
• Sommer, [377].
• Souriau, æsthetics and suggestion, [24];
  • illusion, [131];
  • pleasure in movement, [93], [361];
  • throwing, [104];
  • fear, [166].
• Spencer, superfluous energy, [362];
  • art and sexual selection, [18];
  • rhythm, [89];
  • curiosity, [148].
• Spengel, Lamarckian principle, [372].
• Spinoza, rivalry, [197].
• Steinen, v. d., swinging, [93];
  • hustling things about, [97];
  • recognition, [125];
  • curiosity, [147];
  • ring fighting, [176];
  • the comic, [274];
  • origin of drawing, [314];
  • beginnings of plastic art, [42];
  • dancing, [353];
  • exclusion of women from feasts, [355].
• Steinthal, recreation, [365].
• Stern, L. W., perception of movement, [145].
• Stern, P., sympathy and association, [325].
• Sticker, righthandedness, [76].
• Stöckel, the nude in art, [276].
• Stoll, hypnotism, [25];
  • dancing dervishes, [369].
• Stricker, inner imitation, [329].
• Strümpell, touch sensations, [8];
  • hearing play, [41];
  • endurance play, [102];
  • counting, [136].
• Strutt, old English snowshoeing, [95];
  • endurance play, [102];
  • ball play, [120];
  • fighting play, [185];
  • hunting impulse, [238].
• Stumpf, a prodigy, [129].
• Sully, hearing play, [20], [41];
  • recognition, [123];
  • memory, [128];
  • playful lying, [142];
  • fear, [167];
  • opposition, [186];
  • the comic, [230];
  • voluntary submission, [338].
• Svoboda, fighting play, [182];
  • play of children, [397];
  • dancing, [350].
    
• Tarde, imitation and repetition, [282];
  • obedience as imitation, [348].
• Tiedemann, curiosity, [150].
• Töllner, on play, [398].
• Tracy, beginnings of imitation, [291].
• Tylor, backgammon, [194];
  • wagering and soothsaying, [207], [208];
  • counting games, [210];
  • drawing by deaf-mutes, [230].
    
• Vierordt, movement in children, [75];
  • righthandedness, [76].
• Vischer, [279];
  • inner imitation, [328].
• Volkett, enjoyment of tragedy, [246];
  • inner sympathy, [322].
    
• Wagner, F. v., Lamarckian principle, [372].
• Wagner, H., top spinning, [111];
  • ball games, [120];
  • experimentation, [169].
• Wagner, L., shipwreck, [222];
  • April fool, [225].
• Wagner, R., recognition, [126].
• Wallaschek, rhythm and melody, [26];
  • critique of Spencer, [29].
• Weinhold, K., leaping play, [86];
  • dancing, [89];
  • snowshoeing, [95];
  • throwing play, [181], [203];
  • gaming, [186], [191].
• Weismann, germinal selection, [373].
• Werner, poetic rivalry, [189].
• Westermarck, courtship contest, [263].
• Wetz, province of the drama, [247].
• Wölfflin, touch sensations, [10].
• Wünsche, betting among the Arabians, [208].
• Wundt, love plays, [253];
  • eye movements, [328];
  • criterion of play, [379].
    
• Zettler, tests of strength, [178].
• Zingerle, sense of taste, [9];
  • chain rhymes, [36];
  • sight plays, [50].
• Zola, [136].

THE END