Recieved: 02/18/2023
Accepted: 06/03/2023
Published: 08/21/2023
Keywords: play; pretend play; emotional development; imagination; play and art; acting; play and creativity; experience; empathy
p.: 137-146
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2023.0313
Available online: 21.08.2023
Ryabkova, I.A., Sheina Elena G.. On the play of a child and an actor: to the question of the transformations in experience. // National Psychological Journal 2023. 3. p.137-146. doi: 10.11621/npj.2023.0313
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CopyObjective. To consider the transformation of feeling in a child’s play and compare it with the play of an actor.
Results. The basis for children’s play is emotive, understood as the connection of an event with emotional reactions. The similarity of the current situation with the emotive leads to the appearance and embodiment of the play image. The play image contributes to the transformation of experience: inhibition of spontaneous emotions, splitting of emotional reactions and the appearance of a specific state of playfulness, the emergence of new feelings and joint experiences with other participants of the play. Similar processes occur in society due to stage art. L. Vygotsky believed that the actor’s play has special functions in society: it appears as a response to the mood in society, to the events that people are concerned about. Actor’s play causes viewers to have general emotional reactions, to change and enrich their experience.
Conclusion. Actor’s and children’s play are similar not only in common terminology and imaginary situation of action. They have a deep similarity: both these types of play are connected with work on experience, with its transformation. These are extremely important areas of human culture, since the culture of dealing with feelings has a special meaning for a person as a social being. Play is an instrument of emotional regulation for a child, just as art is a social technique of feelings for humanity.
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