Phenomenological Analysis of Children’s Playing as a Modality of Perceptual Phantasy

• Autor: Luna Bravo, José Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/27119
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/27119
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Child’s playing; Perceptual phantasy; Image consciousness; Phenomenology; Juego infantil; Fantasía perceptiva; Conciencia de imagen; Fenomenología

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.