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Myths and “Mythellaneous”
Several volumes of myths were consulted on the different gods involved in various aspects of play—Burkert (1985), Guthrie (1955), Downing
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Bollingen Stone
Not much has been written about Jung’s Bollingen stone. Jung himself refers to the stone in his autobiography (Jung, 1961/1989) and in his l
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Dionysus
The classic work on Dionysus by Walter Otto (1965), was examined as well Kerényi (1976/1996) and more recent works by Downing (1993) and Par
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Synchronicity, Liminality, Paradox, Chaos, and the Transcendent Function
Jung’s concept of archetypes as having two different poles—instinct (red) and image (blue) combine in the color purple and also in play.
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Trickster
Tricksters come in all different shapes and sizes. I not only looked at Jung’s article on the trickster (Jung, 1954/1990) but also Tarnas’s
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Creativity
M. Fox, (2002), Myers (1999), and H. Gardner (1993) explore the soul and anatomy of creativity, while von Franz (1978) explicates the nature
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Eternal Return
Grof (1998a, 2000a, 2000b) also explicates the transpersonal or archetypal nature of the birth process which is seen in Eliade’s (1954/1991b
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Cosmic and Cosmological Play
Swimme (2001) discusses play as being one of the primary qualities and energies of the universe in addition to creativity, allurement and en
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Play History and Theories
In an effort to situate my dissertation in the current play research, I reviewed developmental, evolutionary, and cultural theories of play
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A Continuing Overview of the Literature
Because play is tricky, many categories overlap and lead into each other. Sometimes a category is betwixt and between other categories.
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