ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that play and playing and the transitional phenomena form the basis for cultural experience in general, and that therefore what he was looking at concerned the greater part of our lives. The idea that the author have is that a satisfactory statement relating to experience in cultural matters has not been made by psycho-analysts. There is some attempt to get towards that which concerns him in the observations relating to affection as compared with instinctually driven object-relating. He is making an assumption here that cultural experience comes about as a direct extension from the playing of children and indeed of babies from the age of birth, and perhaps earlier. There is obviously a close association between playing and the idea of fantasy and dream. The personal dream is there, but two children may build similar houses because of the common denominator in the building materials and also because of archetypal elements in the dreaming.
