Abstract

LUNA BRAVO, José Luis. Phenomenological Analysis of Children’s Playing as a Modality of Perceptual Phantasy. arete [online]. 2023, vol.35, n.1, pp.158-178.  Epub July 19, 2023. ISSN 1016-913X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/arete.202301.006.

The experience of playing is not unknown to anyone of us. As children we have all entered the world opened by phantasy and toys. This paper makes explicit -from a phenomenological perspective- how this particular mixture of perception and phantasy takes place. To avoid confusing this experience with a hallucination or a mere simulation, I claim that playing can be analysed as a particular modality of perceptual phantasy in the “as if” mode. This modality, based on the neutralisation of a perceptual apprehension, enables the opening of the world of phantasy that is deployed in playing. Accordingly, this paper is divided in 3 parts: First, I present a general description of phantasy consciousness; then, I propose an analysis of perceptual phantasy in the experience of theatre; third, I describe the specificity of this modality of phantasy consciousness -called perceptual phantasy- in the intentional structure proper of children’s playing.

Keywords : child’s playing; perceptual phantasy; image consciousness; phenomenology.

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