PLAYING, PLAYFULNESS, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Abstract

It is an investigation about play and playfulness in their relationship with culture and language. To this end, the thought of two authors is analyzed: Sigmund Freud and Huizinga. Respecting their different disciplinary fields, it is intended to verify how each one articulated these themes, which are essential when dealing with the human. Huizinga places the ludic as an element of culture, as a founding part of it. Freud approaches playfulness, play, as a great cultural achievement, relating it to the psychic constitution. Thus, it is a matter of surveying how each one relates play to culture and then verifying possible points of approximation and/or divergence, approaching play from an interdisciplinary perspective, evidencing its ambiguous and diverse character.