Play with the Rules

Precarious Playgrounds

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Sandy Litchfield

In his book, ‘Playing and Reality,’ child psychologist D.H. Winnicott proposes that an abstract playground exists between two people in a relationship. This ‘potential space,’ as he calls it, hovers between the inner worlds of an individual’s mind, which are private and subjective, and the external reality that we occupy together, in which observation and experience can be shared. Part of the game is to test our inner world– our ideas, thoughts, hopes and dreams– in and against reality.1

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9