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Author Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994.

Title Toys and reasons : stages in the ritualization of experience / Erik H. Erikson.

Publication Info. New York : Norton, [1977]
©1977

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  153    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  153 E68T    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Godkin lectures at Harvard University ; 1972.
Contents I. Play and vision : Introduction: from child's play to politics? ; The toy stage ; Seeing is hoping ; Play's end -- II. Life cycle and ritualization : Arenas of interplay ; Speciation and ritualization ; Ritualization in everyday life : Infancy and the numinous ; Childhood and the judicious ; Play age and the dramatic ; School age and the formal ; Adolescence and the ideal ; Adulthood and ritual sanction ; Re-ritualization -- III. Shared visions : Visions on the wall ; The dream screen ; Einstein's puzzles ; A national dream ; Shared nightmares ; Visions and countervisions.
Note "Based on the Godkin lectures ... Harvard University in 1972 under the title Play, vision, and deception."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Developmental psychology.
Play -- Psychological aspects.
Reason.
Ritualization.
United States -- Politics and government.
Human Development.
Imagination.
Play and Playthings.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
Role.
Added Author Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994. Play, vision, and deception.
ISBN 0393011232
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