Play and the Human Condition Kimberley Fletcher our fear of the edge

our fear of the edge and our personal darkness can be transformed into a positive and creative drive for greater inner strength

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rather than knowing it more profoundly -- and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed

Play and the Human Condition Kimberley Fletcher our fear of the edgeIn Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory of play as behaviour promoting self realisation, Henricks articulates